Novalis Quotes

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

The world is a complex place.

I am very much about peace. There is so much turmoil in this world.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.

In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.