Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
— Novalis
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
A character is a completely fashioned will.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Where no gods are, spectres rule.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
