Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Novalis
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Magic
Cities
Literature
Nature
Petrified
City
More quotes by Novalis
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
Novalis
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
Novalis
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
Novalis
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Novalis
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
Novalis
Play is experimenting with chance.
Novalis
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
Novalis
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Novalis
I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
Novalis
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
Novalis
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
Novalis
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
Novalis
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
Novalis
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Novalis
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
Novalis
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
Novalis
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
Novalis
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
Novalis
