"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
"Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness."
"Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet."
"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."