There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over th…

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal li…

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?' (p.19…

What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood. #118

Novalis has been, and remains, one of the most vital influences in German literature; the modern mystics: Maeterlinck, Herman Hesse and Rilke (often considered…