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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
Play is experimenting with chance.
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.