Quote

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

Novalis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
Engineer
Literary Theorist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
Energy
Sadly
Real
Springs
Even
Sickness
Effect
Spring
Effects
Debility
Greater
Expires
Powerful
Infirmity

More quotes by Novalis

Image
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
Novalis
Image
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
Novalis
Image
Character and fate are two words for the same thing
Novalis
Image
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Novalis
Image
Humanity is a comic role.
Novalis
Image
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
Image
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Novalis
Image
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Novalis
Image
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
Novalis
Image
Character is a perfectly educated will.
Novalis
Image
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
Novalis
Image
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis
Image
Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought many more, to be spoken.
Novalis
Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Novalis
Image
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
Novalis
Image
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
Novalis
Image
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
Novalis
Image
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
Novalis
Image
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
Novalis
Image
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
Novalis