Where no gods are, spectres rule.

- Novalis

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

A character is a completely fashioned will.

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

- Novalis

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

Nature is a petrified magic city.

- Novalis

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

- Novalis

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

- Novalis