Novalis's Quotes

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

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

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.