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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.

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

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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

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

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Where children are, there is the golden age.