Novalis
Novalis
Novaliswas the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a poet, author, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism. Hardenberg's professional work and university background, namely his study of mineralogy and management of salt mines in Saxony, was often ignored by his contemporary readers. The first studies showing important relations between his literary and professional works started in the 1960s...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 May 1772
CityWiederstedt, Germany
CountryGermany
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.
Character is a perfectly educated will.
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
Character is perfectly educated will.