Novalis Quotes (and take aways)

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

Creativity help us reconnect with the magic in life when logic takes over.

"We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible."

We are connected to a world beyond what we can see, and this invisible world is even more important than the physical one.

"Where are we really going? Always home."

"Home" represents our deepest wish for a place of complete peace and wholeness - a feeling we are always searching for.

“In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.“

Art should have structure, but also surprise, with a balance between order and chaos that makes it feel alive and exciting.

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

Create your own path in life, using your imagination to shape your future instead of following a story that’s already written.

“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

To “romanticize” the world is to see magic in everyday things, helping us find beauty and mystery in the world around us.

Other Quotes:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

-Albert Einstein

Imagination lets us explore beyond what we already know, opening up new ideas, while knowledge alone has limits.

“Reason can only follow paths that the imagination has broken.”

-Richard Rorty

Imagination creates new paths for reason to explore.

“It’s what I couldn’t understand about people for a long time. They have no self. They live within others. They live second-hand.”

-Ayn Rand​

Many people live “second-hand” lives, shaped by others’ expectations. 

Rand continues: It’s “like the senseless infinity you get from two mirrors facing each other across a narrow passage… reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”

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