51 Inspiring Quotes By Novalis That Will Lift Your Spirits
Famous As: German Romantic Poet and Philosopher Known for His Poems ‘Hymns to the Night’ and ‘Spiritual Songs’
Born On: 1772
Died On: 1801
Born In: Wiederstedt, Germany
Died At Age: 28
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, popularly known by his pen name Novalis, was a German philosopher, author, poet and mystic. He rose to prominence in the 18th century and is regarded as the most important figure in Early German Romanticism. Novalis was born in an aristocratic family, studied law and then went on to study geology at the Mining Academy of Freiburg. Although he had been trained in geology and law, he made his name as an author and philosopher. He maintained note books and wrote several philosophical books during his life, which came to be broadly associated with Early German Romanticism. Some of his noted works include ‘The Birth of Novalis’, ‘Hymns to the Nights’, ‘Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics’, ‘Fichte Studies’, ‘Novalis: Notes for Romantic Encyclopaedia’, ‘Novalis: Philosophical Writings’ and ‘The Novices of Sais’ etc. Many of Novalis’ work have been translated into English by scholars from all across the world and his works are housed in some of the leading libraries. Here is a collection of quotes and thoughts that have been extracted from the vast sea of writings, novels, books and poems by Novalis. Go through the profound sayings, thoughts and quotes from Novalis’s work and life.
Every individual is the center of a system of emanation.
Novalis
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
Novalis
Play is experimenting with chance.
Novalis
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Novalis
But even more heavenly than the flashing
stars are those infinite eyes which the night opens within us, and which see further even than the palest of those
innumerable hosts.
Novalis
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.
Novalis
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
Novalis
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.
Whoever sees life other than as a self-destroying illusion is himself still preoccupied with life.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The greatest of sorcerers would be the one who would cast a spell on himself to the degree of taking his own phantasmagoria for autonomous apparitions. Might that not be our case?
