NovalisThinkers

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

Character is the same word as fate, only spelled differently.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Distance is able to turn everything into poetry... distant mountains, distant people, distant events... all become romantic.

The Englishman is an island just as England itself.

Fate is the same word as character, only spelled differently.

A Hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Language is, in fact, on the same order of 'realness' as mathematics in that, like mathematics, language constitutes a self-contained world entirely of its own. It expresses nothing but its own marvelous nature, and just for this reason they are so expressive just for this reason the strange play of relations between things is mirrored in them.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Nature is a petrified magic city.