Where children are, there is the golden age.
—Novalis
Topics: Children
Happy those who here on earth have dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.
—Novalis
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
—Novalis
Topics: Dreams
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
—Novalis
Topics: Knowledge
Character is a perfectly educated will.
—Novalis
A character is a completely fashioned will.
—Novalis
Topics: Character
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
—Novalis
Topics: Enjoyment, Learning
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
—Novalis
Topics: Christianity, Christians
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
—Novalis
Topics: Arts, Art, Artists
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
—Novalis
Topics: The Artist
Character is perfectly educated will.
—Novalis
Topics: Character
Nature is an AEolian harp, a musical instrument, whose tones are the reecho of higher strings within us.
—Novalis
Topics: Nature
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
—Novalis
Topics: Fate
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
—Novalis
Topics: Poetry
There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man.—Nothing is holier than this high form.—We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.
—Novalis
Topics: Humanity, The Body
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
—Novalis
Topics: Mind
No one who has not a complete knowledge of himself will ever have a true understanding of another.
—Novalis
Topics: Self-Knowledge
Only so far as a man is happily married to himself, is he fit for married life to another, and for family life generally.
—Novalis
Topics: Meditation, Marriage, One liners
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
—Novalis
Friendship, love, and piety, ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy.—They ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence—to be mutually understood in silence.—Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more to be spoken.
—Novalis
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
—Novalis
Topics: Sympathy
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
—Novalis
Topics: Opinions, Agreement
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German Philosopher
- Friedrich Schiller German Poet
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet
- Heinrich Heine German Poet, Writer
- August Wilhelm Schlegel German Poet, Critic, Scholar
- Johannes Kepler German Astronomer
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz German Philosopher, Mathematician
- Erich Kastner German Author
- Ernst Moritz Arndt German Writer
- Johann Gottfried Herder German Critic, Poet
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