Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
More Novalis Quotes
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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