The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us. Novalis More Quotes by Novalis More Quotes From Novalis To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. Novalis literature firsts Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. Novalis desire home philosophy Our bodies are molded rivers. Novalis rain rivers water Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. Novalis one-half half faith What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? Novalis delight pleasure doe 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 unions self world Play is experimenting with chance. Novalis chance play Character is perfectly educated will. Novalis educated inspirational character One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand Novalis language doe want 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 poetic moral genius Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. Novalis boredom causes book To know a truth well, one must have fought it out. Novalis wells knows positive Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness. Novalis attentiveness kind The poem of the understanding is philosophy. Novalis understanding philosophy To philosophize means to make vivid. Novalis vivid mean 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 men lying ideas The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. Novalis poet knowing world The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. Novalis pedestal artist doe The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals. Novalis brain world thinking
