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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
Humanity is a comic role.
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.