149 Quotes by novalis

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

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

To philosophize means to make vivid.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?