13 Quotes By Novalis

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Where children are, there is the golden age.
Novalis on age

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis on art

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis on dreams

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis on faith

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

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

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis on knowledge

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Novalis on learning

Nature is a petrified magic city.
Novalis on nature

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis on poetry

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

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

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
Novalis on prayer