149 Quotes by novalis

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.