Novalis Quotes

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Трябва да бъдем горди за болката, всяка болка е едно напомняне за нашата извисеност.

Humanity is a comic role.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me-and what I seem to learn is only nourishment-stimulation of the organism.