Novalis

"It depends only on the weakness of our organs and of our self-excitement , that we do not see ourselves in a Fairy-world. All Fabulous Tales are merely dreams of that home world, which is everywhere a…"

"Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spiri…"

"The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies …"

"I shall in no time forget that moment. We felt as if we had had in our souls a clear passing glimpse into this wondrous World."

"The rude, discursive Thinker is the Scholastic . The true Scholastic is a mystical Subtlist; out of logical Atoms he builds his Universe; he annihilates all living Nature, to put an Artifice of Though…"

"The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water."

"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 Sympho…"

"Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have in…"