How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism. - Novalis
There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. - Novalis
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand - Novalis
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness. - Novalis
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction. - Novalis
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. - Novalis
Трябва да бъдем горди за болката, всяка болка е едно напомняне за нашата извисеност. - Novalis
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. - Novalis
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. - Novalis