black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Where are we really going? Always home.
NOVALIS

Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Humanity is a comic role.
NOVALIS

Cosmos Humanity Role
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NOVALIS

Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
NOVALIS

Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
NOVALIS

Concept Fate Name Temperature
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.
NOVALIS

Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALIS

Character Complete Fashion Willing
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
NOVALIS

Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALIS

Catch Himself Trap
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALIS

Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NOVALIS

Artist Life Meaning
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
NOVALIS

God Life Mathematics
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.
NOVALIS

Philosophy Point Soul World
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
NOVALIS

Children Cure Music Solution
Character is perfectly educated will.
NOVALIS

Character Education Perfection Willing

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Novalis Quotes