Novalis Quotes

Where children are, there is the golden age.

– Novalis

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

– Novalis

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

– Novalis

A character is a completely fashioned will.

– Novalis

Nature is a petrified magic city.

– Novalis

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

– Novalis

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

– Novalis

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

– Novalis

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

– Novalis

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

– Novalis

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

– Novalis

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

– Novalis

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

– Novalis

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

– Novalis

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

– Novalis

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

– Novalis

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

– Novalis

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

– Novalis

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

– Novalis

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

– Novalis

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

– Novalis