Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise. Novalis More Quotes by Novalis More Quotes From Novalis Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. Novalis desirehomephilosophy Our bodies are molded rivers. Novalis rainriverswater Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. Novalis one-halfhalffaith What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? Novalis delightpleasuredoe Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world. Novalis unionsselfworld Play is experimenting with chance. Novalis chanceplay Character is perfectly educated will. Novalis educatedinspirationalcharacter One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand Novalis languagedoewant Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things. Novalis absolutes Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. Novalis poeticmoralgenius Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. Novalis boredomcausesbook To know a truth well, one must have fought it out. Novalis wellsknowspositive Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness. Novalis attentivenesskind The poem of the understanding is philosophy. Novalis understandingphilosophy To philosophize means to make vivid. Novalis vividmean Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator. Novalis menlyingideas The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. Novalis poetknowingworld The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. Novalis pedestalartistdoe The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals. Novalis brainworldthinking A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones? Novalis heartloveneeds
