Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

About Novalis

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis ( German: [no’va:lIs]), was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

German poet and writer

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Novalis

German poet and writer

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

German poet and writer

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

German poet and writer

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Novalis

German poet and writer

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

German poet and writer

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Novalis

German poet and writer

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Novalis

German poet and writer

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

Novalis

German poet and writer

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Novalis

German poet and writer

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

German poet and writer

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

Novalis

German poet and writer

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Novalis

German poet and writer

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Novalis

German poet and writer

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Novalis

German poet and writer

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

Novalis

German poet and writer

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Novalis

German poet and writer

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Novalis

German poet and writer

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

Novalis

German poet and writer

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Novalis

German poet and writer

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Novalis

German poet and writer