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.
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.
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.