Quotes by Novalis
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
A character is a completely fashioned will.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
