It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
NOVALISWe are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
More Novalis Quotes
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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