Novalis Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.

  Novalis

  Dream, Lying, Past

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

• Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.

  Novalis

  Lying, Men, Ideas

  "Bluthenstaub (Pollen)". Book by Novalis (Fragment No. 88), 1798.

• 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.

  Novalis

  Lying, Sacrifice, Men

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.29, SUNY Press

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