149 Quotes by novalis

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.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ultimate attainment of the barbarian, and unfortunately in these days of civilization’s withering it has won a great many adherents. In pursuance of this ideal man becomes a hybrid thing, a brute-spirit, whose cruel mentality exerts a horrible spell upon weaklings.

Who does not love to wander at twilight, when the light of day and the deep shades of night mingle together in deep coloring?

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

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

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning – at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being’s limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.