Novalis Quotes

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning of freedom, predestination, and liberty of choice and so on. But to have asked questions of yourself about it, I think is not too important. Let's say - I remain - I remained a believer.

[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?'

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.