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 →
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Where no gods are, spectres rule.
A character is a completely fashioned will.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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.