Quote

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
Engineer
Literary Theorist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
Meaning
Artist
Art
Life
Interpret

More quotes by Novalis

Image
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
Novalis
Image
The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
Novalis
Image
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
Novalis
Image
A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?
Novalis
Image
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Novalis
Image
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
Novalis
Image
Play is experimenting with chance.
Novalis
Image
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
Novalis
Image
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
Novalis
Image
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Novalis
Image
When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.
Novalis
Image
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
Novalis
Image
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
Novalis
Image
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
Novalis
Image
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis
Image
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
Novalis
Image
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
Novalis
Image
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
Novalis
Image
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
Novalis
Image
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
Novalis