To philosophize means to make vivid.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
More Novalis Quotes
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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