Novalis
Poet
1772-05-02 – 1801-03-25
Novalis was a German poet, philosopher, and early figure of German Romanticism. His works and fragments had major influence on romantic literature and thought.
Books by Novalis
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Hymns to the Night
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The Birth of Novalis
Friedrich von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents
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Quotes by Novalis
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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.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and success, the moment a second mind has adopted it.
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