Quotes by : Novalis

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

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

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

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral....

Humanity is a comic role.

A God-intoxicated man.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper....

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I....

Character is perfectly educated will.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute....