"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 future ages."
- As quoted in Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2
"There is but one temple in the Universe and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body."
- Novalis, as inscribed on the Library of Congress, quoted in Handbook of the New Library of Congress (1897) by Herbert Small, p. 53
"Love works magic. It is the final purpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe."
- Novalis
"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, Blüthenstaub (1798), Fragment No. 95
"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
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"Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality."
- Novalis
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"We are near waking when we dream that we dream."
- Novalis
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"Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe."
- Novalis
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