black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Novalis

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
NOVALIS

General Happiness Life Man Marriage
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NOVALIS

Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NOVALIS

Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
NOVALIS

Oneself Properly Truth
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.
NOVALIS

Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
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.
NOVALIS

Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
NOVALIS

Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
NOVALIS

Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
NOVALIS

End History Love Universe World
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
NOVALIS

Children Cure Music Solution
A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALIS

Character Complete Fashion Willing
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
NOVALIS

Distance People Poetry Romantic
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
NOVALIS

Artist Human Stand Statue
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALIS

Catch Himself Trap
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
NOVALIS

Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALIS

Finding Material Search

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Novalis Quotes