Pollen and Fragments Quotes

“We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Apparently, we go forward.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Adam and Eve. What through a revolution was effected, must through a revolution be overthrown.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences is the aim.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Let the dragon-flies rise; innocent strangers they are, Follow the twin star, exulting, with gifts, this way.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“The mystical expression is more an attracting thought. All truth is primeval. The charm of its newness lies only in the variation of expression.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Many things are too delicate to be thought, much less spoken of in words.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“The moral system must become a natural system. All sickness is the equivalent of sin; it is through an excess that it is transcended. Our sicknesses are all phenomena of a heightened sensation that in great force will overflow.
As man would become God, he sins-- The sickness of plants is animalization; the sickness of animals is rationalization; the sickness of stones is vegetation. Shouldn't each plant correspond to a stone and to an animal?
Reality of sympathy. Parallelisms of the natural realm. --Plants are dead stones; animals are dead plants, and so forth. Theory of metempsychosis.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“In the end, the comprehensibility of phenomena rests upon faith and will. If I make a mystery of a manifestation, then it is a mystery for me. It is therefore the same with boundaries.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences if the aim.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“The true philosophical act is the slaying of the self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy, therein lies the requirement for all philosophic youths,
and only this act answers all criteria and conditions for the transcendental deed.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Most revolutionaries neither exactly know--nor knew--what they want: Form or Unform.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“A criminal cannot complain about wrongs done him because one treats him harshly and inhumanely. His offense was an entry into the realm of violence, power and tyranny. There is no restraint and proportion in that realm,
and therefore he should not be surprised at the disproportion of its counter-reaction.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Error and bias are burdens, indirectly attracting remedies, as every load balances. For the frail they are certainly a weakening agent.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“In serene souls there is no jesting. Jesting indicates a loss of equilibrium; it is both a succession of disturbances and the center's restoration. The sharpest wit has passion.
The condition of the dissolution of all proportion - despair and spiritual death - is most fearfully witty.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Man abides in truth. As one prizes truth, so one cherishes oneself. Whoever betrays truth, betrays himself. We speak not of lies here, but rather of acts against convictions.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose