Quotes from Novalis

Qué es lo que nos retiene aún aquí? Los amados descansan hace tiempo. En su tumba termina nuestra vida; miedo y dolor invaden nuestra alma. Ya no tenemos nada que buscar –harto está el corazón–, vacío el mundo.

Il senso per la poesia ha molto in comune con il senso per il misticismo. [...] Rappresenta l'irrappresentabile, vede l'invisibile, sente il non sensibile.

Ayn? masallar? dinlemelerine ra?men ötekiler hiç böyle bir ?ey ya?amad?lar.

Many things are too delicate to be thought, much less spoken of in words.

Ama geceye sad?k kal?r Gizli yüre?im Ve gecenin k?z? olan Yarat?c? sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonras?z sad?k bir yürek? Senin güne?inin Sevgi dolu gözleri var m? Beni tan?yabilen?

Memory's distances, youth's wishes, childhood's dreams, the short joys of a whole long life and hopeless hopes come grey-clad, like evening mist after the sun has set.

Paradise is scattered over the whole earth, and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.

Alles ist gut, nur nicht überall; nur nicht immer, nur nicht für alle.

Man abides in truth. As one prizes truth, so one cherishes oneself. Whoever betrays truth, betrays himself. We speak not of lies here, but rather of acts against convictions.

Den Satz des Widerspruchs zu vernichten ist vielleicht die höchste Aufgabe der höheren Logik

In serene souls there is no jesting. Jesting indicates a loss of equilibrium; it is both a succession of disturbances and the center's restoration. The sharpest wit has passion. The condition of the dissolution of all proportion - despair and spiritual death - is most fearfully witty.

Error and bias are burdens, indirectly attracting remedies, as every load balances. For the frail they are certainly a weakening agent.

The obsession with originality is a *coarse* scholarly egotism. Whoever is incapable of treating every foreign thought as though it were his own, and a personal thought as though it were foreign—is no true scholar.

A criminal cannot complain about wrongs done him because one treats him harshly and inhumanely. His offense was an entry into the realm of violence, power and tyranny. There is no restraint and proportion in that realm, and therefore he should not be surprised at the disproportion of its counter-reaction.

Most revolutionaries neither exactly know--nor knew--what they want: Form or Unform.

The true philosophical act is the slaying of the self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy, therein lies the requirement for all philosophic youths, and only this act answers all criteria and conditions for the transcendental deed.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences if the aim.

Adam and Eve. What through a revolution was effected, must through a revolution be overthrown.

In the end, the comprehensibility of phenomena rests upon faith and will. If I make a mystery of a manifestation, then it is a mystery for me. It is therefore the same with boundaries.

The whole of the visible is incorporated in the invisible and the audible in the inaudible, and the tangible in the intangible. There is no doubt that everything that can be thought about is incorporated into everything that cannot be thought about.

Wir sind dem Aufwachen nahe, wenn wir träumen, daß wir träumen.

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Pentru poet, obiectivitatea este totul, pentru filoyof, subiectivitatea. Poertul este glasul universului, filoyoful este glasul Unului elementar, al principiului.