Quotes from Novalis

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

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Pure mathematics is the magician's real wand.

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

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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

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

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.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.