149 Quotes by novalis

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Paradise is scattered over the whole earth, and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.

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

Wir sind dem Aufwachen nahe, wenn wir träumen, daß wir träumen.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

Humanity is a comic role.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.