One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALISCharacter and fate are two words for the same thing.
More Novalis Quotes
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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