149 Quotes by novalis

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.