Novalis Quotes - Page 4

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

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.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.