black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Novalis

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NOVALIS

Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALIS

Philosophy Poem Understand
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
NOVALIS

Democracy Fact Man Right Root
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALIS

Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALIS

Catch Himself Trap
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
NOVALIS

Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Humanity is a comic role.
NOVALIS

Cosmos Humanity Role
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
NOVALIS

Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
NOVALIS

Dreams Wake Up
Play is experimenting with chance.
NOVALIS

Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
NOVALIS

Distance People Poetry Romantic
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NOVALIS

Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
NOVALIS

Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALIS

Language Oneself Understand

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Novalis Quotes