The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
More Novalis Quotes
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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