Novalis Quotes

Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love on.
I feel the flow of
Death's youth-giving flood
To balsam and ether
Transform my blood — I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy fire
I die every night.

The process of history is combustion.

The highest task of education is — to take command of one’s transcendental self — to be at once the I of its I. It is all the less to be wondered at that we lack complete insight and understanding for others. Without perfect self-understanding one will never learn to truly understand others.

No explanation is required for Holy Writing. Whoso speaks truly is full of eternal life, and wonderfully related to genuine mysteries does his Writing appear to us, for it is a Concord from the Symphony of the Universe.

Ohne die Träume würden wir gewiss früher alt.

I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.

Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night’s beloved in this earthly labour of the day.

I am a profoundly anti-juridical man. . . . I have neither any sense of law or need for law.

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

The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self (Selbsttodtung); this is the real beginning of all Philosophy; all requisites for being a Disciple of Philosophy point hither. This Act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct.

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

Plants are Children of the Earth; we are Children of the Æther. Our Lungs are properly our Root; we live, when we breathe; we begin our life with breathing.

ah! tüket beni ey sevgili,
sonuna kadar tüket ki,
uykuya dalayım
ve sevebileyim.
hissediyorum ölümün
gençleştirici akışını, kanım
merheme ve uzama dönüşmekte -
yaşıyorum gündüz vakitlerinde
inanç ve cesaretle
geceleri ise
kutsal ateşte ölüyorum.

We dream of a journey through the universe. But is the universe then not in us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. Inward goes the secret path. Eternity with its worlds, the past and future, is in us or nowhere.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.