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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
Man is a sun, his senses are the planets.
You are alone with everything you love.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!