“ Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. Novalis
“ Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction. Novalis
“ How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--… Novalis
“ To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. Novalis
“ Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. Novalis
“ Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. Novalis
