Quotes by Novalis

• We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
• Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
• Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
• Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
• Where no gods are, spectres rule.
• Where children are, there is the golden age.
• We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
• We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
• To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
• Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
• Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
• Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
• Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
• Nature is a petrified magic city.
• I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
• A character is a completely fashioned will.
• A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
• Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
• Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
• Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.