Character is perfectly educated will.
NOVALISThe history of every individual man should be a Bible.
More Novalis Quotes
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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