149 Quotes by novalis

Though the heroes and their fates are inventions, yet the spirit in which they are composed is true and natural.

We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.

Up to now our thinking was either purely mechanical – discursive – atomistic – or purely intuitive – dynamic. Perhaps now the time for union has come?

Ein Kommandowort bewegt Armeen; das Wort Freiheit Nationen.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.