Quotes by Novalis

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

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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

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

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Where children are, there is the golden age.