All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
NOVALISLife must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
More Novalis Quotes
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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