Quotes by Novalis

“Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.”

“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.”

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

“Character is perfectly educated will.”

“Not only England but every Englishman is an island.”

“A God-intoxicated man.”

“We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.”

“Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.”

“Humanity is a comic role.”

“The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.”

“Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external, the other too much inner sense. Seldom could nature achieve a balance bet...”

“Not only England but every Englishman is an island.”

“Unser Leben ist kein Traum, aber es soll und wird vielleicht einer werden.”

“There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of events, so that it seems imperfect, and its c...”

“Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.”

“Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept.”

“I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and fu...”

“Wahrhafte Anarchie ist das Zeugungselement der Religion. Aus der Vernichtung alles Positiven hebt sie ihr glorreiches Haupt als neue Weltstifterin empor...”

“Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former a...”

“The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.”