The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
More Novalis Quotes
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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