Novalis said this quote

“ The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers than Fichte. ”

Famous Quotes of Novalis

Famous quotes of Novalis from the classy quote

See all

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

~ Novalis

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

~ Novalis

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

~ Novalis

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

~ Novalis