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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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.
Our bodies are molded rivers.
Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
Humanity is a comic role.
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.