Novalis (German: [noˈvaːlɪs]) was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism. Read full biography of Novalis →
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Novalis (German: [noˈvaːlɪs]) was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism.