9 Novalis Quotes on Life

Novalis quotes on life

26. Das hochste Leben ist Mathematik.

52. Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by Passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit.

53. Our life is no Dream, but it may and will perhaps become one.

60. Plants are Children of the Earth; we are Children of the ?ther. Our Lungs are properly our Root; we live, when we breathe; we begin our life with breathing.

78. Death is a victory over the self - which, like all self-conquest, brings about a new, easier existence.

80. Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning - at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

82. Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

85. Romanticize the world.

98. In this season, Novalis lived only to his sorrow; it was natural for him to regard the visible and the invisible world as one; and to distinguish Life and Death only by his longing for the latter. At the same time too, Life became for him a glorified Life; and his whole being melted away as into a bright, conscious vision of a higher Existence. ... He remained many weeks in Thuringia; and came back comforted and truly purified, to his engagements; which he pursued more zealously than ever, though he now regarded himself as a stranger on the earth.