Novalis Quotes

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

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

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly m...

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betr...

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I...

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

A God-intoxicated man.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Character is perfectly educated will.

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

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Humanity is a comic role.

The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case al...

The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of t...

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--henc...

Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much...

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

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper...

Not only England but every Englishman is an island.