Quotes by Novalis

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.”

“Where no gods are, spectres rule.”

“Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.”

“A character is a completely fashioned will.”

“Where children are, there is the golden age.”

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

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

“I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.”

“Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.”

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

“Nature is a petrified magic city.”

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

“To what extent can one have a sense for something if he doesnt have its embryo inside him? Whatever I come to understand must itself develop organically in myself, and what I seem to learn is only nourishment and cultivation of that inner organism.”

“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.”

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

“Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”

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

“Character and fate are two words for the same thing.”