Novalis Quotes - Page 3

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

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

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

To philosophize means to make vivid.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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

I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.

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

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

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

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Humanity is a comic role.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

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

Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Our bodies are molded rivers.