Quotes & anectdotes from
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Novalis Philosopher

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Germany
  • Born: May 2, 1772
  • Died: Mar 25, 1801

Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Where children are, there is the golden age.