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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.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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.