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
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. ... The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth , air , and [[water.
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
Play is experimenting with chance.
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.