Novalis Quotes

Where no gods are, spectres rule. - Novalis

Where children are, there is the golden age. - Novalis

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

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. - Novalis

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream. - Novalis

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible. - Novalis

To what extent can one have a sense for something if he doesn't have its embryo inside him? Whatever I come to understand must itself develop organically in myself, and what I seem to learn is only nourishment and cultivation of that inner organism. - Novalis

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

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. - Novalis