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lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Novalis" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3" title="نووالیس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="نووالیس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikiquote.org/wiki/Novalis" title="Novalis – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Novalis" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Novalis" title="Novalis – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Novalis" 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He is most commonly known by the pseudonym <b>Novalis</b> (denoting a "clearer of new land" — derived from a tradition of his ancestors, who had called themselves <i>de Novali</i>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Novalis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sirius_A_and_B_Hubble_photo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Sirius_A_and_B_Hubble_photo.jpg/250px-Sirius_A_and_B_Hubble_photo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Sirius_A_and_B_Hubble_photo.jpg/330px-Sirius_A_and_B_Hubble_photo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Sirius_A_and_B_Hubble_photo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="369" data-file-height="403" /></a><figcaption>There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the <a href="/wiki/Real" class="mw-redirect" title="Real">real</a> ones. They rarely coincide.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Universeglass.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Universeglass.JPG/220px-Universeglass.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Universeglass.JPG/330px-Universeglass.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Universeglass.JPG/440px-Universeglass.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>I was still <a href="/wiki/Blindness" title="Blindness">blind</a>, but twinkling <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">stars</a> did <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a> throughout my being's limitless expanse...</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Christian_Anarchist_Blot.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Christian_Anarchist_Blot.svg/220px-Christian_Anarchist_Blot.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Christian_Anarchist_Blot.svg/330px-Christian_Anarchist_Blot.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Christian_Anarchist_Blot.svg/440px-Christian_Anarchist_Blot.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="342" data-file-height="353" /></a><figcaption>True <a href="/wiki/Anarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarchy">anarchy</a> is the generative element of <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>. Out of the annihilation of all existing institutions she raises her glorious head, as the new foundress of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bluerosecropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Bluerosecropped.jpg/220px-Bluerosecropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Bluerosecropped.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="248" data-file-height="279" /></a><figcaption>To <a href="/wiki/Romanticize" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanticize">romanticize</a> the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> is to make us aware of the <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> of the world…</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i>Unser Leben ist kein Traum, aber es soll und wird vielleicht einer werden.</i> <ul><li>Our life is no dream, but it should and perhaps will become one.</li> <li><i>Fragmente I</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/novalis/fragmen1/chap005.html">Magische Philosophie</a></li> <li>Variant: "Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_MacDonald" title="George MacDonald">George MacDonald</a>, <i>Phantastes</i>, epigraph to <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phantastes/Chapter_XXV" class="extiw" title="s:Phantastes/Chapter XXV">Chapter XXV</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There are <a href="/wiki/Ideal" title="Ideal">ideal</a> series of events which run parallel with the <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">real</a> ones. They rarely coincide.</b> Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of events, so that it seems imperfect, and its <a href="/wiki/Consequences" class="mw-redirect" title="Consequences">consequences</a> are equally imperfect. Thus with the Reformation; instead of Protestantism came Lutheranism. <ul><li>Epigraph, "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Tales_of_Mystery_and_Imagination/The_Mystery_of_Marie_Rog%C3%AAt" class="extiw" title="s:Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination/The Mystery of Marie Rogêt">The Mystery Of Marie Rogêt</a>" (1842) by <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a>, adapted from <i>Fragments from German Prose Writers</i> (1841) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Austin" class="extiw" title="w:Sarah Austin">Sarah Austin</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fate" title="Fate">Fate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Temperament" class="mw-redirect" title="Temperament">temperament</a> are the <a href="/wiki/Names" title="Names">names</a> of a concept. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Demian</i> (1972) by <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" title="Hermann Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a>, trans. W.J. Strachan</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fate" title="Fate">Fate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Temperament" class="mw-redirect" title="Temperament">temperament</a> are two words for one and the same concept. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Demian</i> (1965) by <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" title="Hermann Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a>, trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I was still <a href="/wiki/Blindness" title="Blindness">blind</a>, but twinkling <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">stars</a> did <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a> <br /> Throughout my being's limitless expanse</b>, <br /> <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">Nothing</a> had yet drawn close, only at distant stages <br /> <b> I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy</i> (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Wahrhafte Anarchie ist das Zeugungselement der Religion. Aus der Vernichtung alles Positiven hebt sie ihr glorreiches Haupt als neue Weltstifterin empor...</i> <ul><li><b>True <a href="/wiki/Anarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarchy">anarchy</a> is the generative element of <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>. Out of the annihilation of all existing institutions she raises her glorious head, as the new foundress of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>.</b></li> <li>English translation as quoted in <i>The Dublin Review</i> Vol. III (July-October 1837); The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jlrweb.com/whiterose/leaffourger.html">original German is quoted</a> from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jlrweb.com/whiterose/leaffoureng.html">Fourth Leaflet</a> of the <a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">White Rose</a> (1942)</li> <li>Variant translation: <b>True anarchy is the generative element of religion.</b> Out of the annihilation of every positive element she lifts her gloriously radiant countenance as the founder of a new world.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former altars all together, hear about the works of peace, and hold a great celebration of peace with fervent tears before the smoking altars. <ul><li>As quoted in the Fourth Leaflet of the White Rose (1942)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">Poetry</a> heals the wounds inflicted by <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Quote, Unquote‎</i> (1989) by Jonathan Williams, p. 136</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> must be romanticized.</b> In this way the originary <a href="/wiki/Meaning" title="Meaning">meaning</a> may be found again. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>The Experience of the Foreign : Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany</i> (1992) by Antoine Berman</li> <li>Variant translation: <b>Romanticize the world.</b></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> of the world; it is to <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">educate</a> the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as <a href="/wiki/Sacred" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred">sacred</a>, the finite as <a href="/wiki/Infinite" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite">infinite</a>.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in "<i>Bildung</i> in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser, in <i>Philosophers on Education : Historical Perspectives</i> (1998) by Amélie Rorty, p. 294</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To get to know a <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> properly, one must polemicize it. <ul><li>Quoted in <i>The Viking Book of Aphorisms</i> by <a href="/wiki/Wystan_Hugh_Auden" class="mw-redirect" title="Wystan Hugh Auden">Wystan Hugh Auden</a> (1962) p. 323</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. ... The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with “I am.” The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I. <ul><li><i>Fichte Studies</i> § 556</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy. <ul><li><i>Fichte Studies</i> § 651</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.</b> <ul><li>“Miscellaneous Observations,” <i>Philosophical Writings</i>, M. Stolijar, trans. (Albany: 1997) #48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. <ul><li>“Logological Fragments,” <i>Philosophical Writings</i>, M. Stolijar, trans. (Albany: 1997) #12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The poem of the understanding is philosophy. <ul><li>“Logological Fragments,” <i>Philosophical Writings</i>, M. Stolijar, trans. (Albany: 1997) #24</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Die Möglichkeit aller Philosophie ... dass sich die Intelligenz durch Selbstberührung eine Selbstgesezmäßige Bewegung - d.i. eine eigne Form der Tätigkeit gibt. <ul><li>The possibility of all philosophy ... namely, that the intelligence, by affecting itself, gives itself a movement in accordance with its own law — that is, gives itself a form of activity all its own. <ul><li><i>Schriften</i>, p. 63, as translated in <i>Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: Volume 1, 1913-1926</i> (1996), p. 133</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blüthenstaub_(1798)"><span id="Bl.C3.BCthenstaub_.281798.29"></span><i>Blüthenstaub</i> (1798)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Novalis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Blüthenstaub (1798)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotations sourced to <i>Blüthenstaub</i> [<i>Pollen</i>] or <i>Blüthenstaub-Fragmente</i> [<i>Pollen and Fragments</i>]</small></dd> <dd><small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lyrik.ch/lyrik/spur3/novalis/novalis3.htm">Full text in German</a></small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vlas_blauwbloeiend_(Linum_usitatissimum).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Vlas_blauwbloeiend_%28Linum_usitatissimum%29.jpg/220px-Vlas_blauwbloeiend_%28Linum_usitatissimum%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="345" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Vlas_blauwbloeiend_%28Linum_usitatissimum%29.jpg/330px-Vlas_blauwbloeiend_%28Linum_usitatissimum%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Vlas_blauwbloeiend_%28Linum_usitatissimum%29.jpg/440px-Vlas_blauwbloeiend_%28Linum_usitatissimum%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="649" data-file-height="1017" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Friends">Friends</a>, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest <a href="/wiki/Harvests" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvests">harvests</a>...</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Friends">Friends</a>, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest <a href="/wiki/Harvests" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvests">harvests</a>.</b> <ul><li>Motto</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Morning-glory-flower.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Morning-glory-flower.jpg/220px-Morning-glory-flower.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Morning-glory-flower.jpg/330px-Morning-glory-flower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Morning-glory-flower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="439" data-file-height="327" /></a><figcaption>We do not know the depths of our own <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a>. — The mysterious path leads within...</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Everywhere we seek <a href="/wiki/The_All" title="The All">the Absolute</a>, and always we find only things.</b> <ul><li>Fragment No. 1; Variant: We seek the absolute everywhere and only ever find things.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable <a href="/wiki/Abstraction" title="Abstraction">abstraction</a>. Three letters designate <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! <b><a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">Language</a> is the dynamics of the <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spiritual</a> realm. One word of command moves armies; the word <i><a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">Liberty</a></i> entire nations.</b> <ul><li>Fragment No. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imagination" title="Imagination">Imagination</a> places the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> for us either above or below or in reincarnation. <b>We <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> of travels throughout the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a>. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">eternity</a> with its <a href="/wiki/Worlds" class="mw-redirect" title="Worlds">worlds</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> and the future.</b> <ul><li>Fragment No. 16</li> <li>Variant translations:</li> <li><b>We <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> of a journey through the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>. But is the universe then not in us? We do not know the depths of our <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a>. Inward goes the secret path. <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">Eternity</a> with its <a href="/wiki/Worlds" class="mw-redirect" title="Worlds">worlds</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>, is in us or nowhere.</b> <ul><li>As translated in "<i>Bildung</i> in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser, in <i>Philosophers on Education : Historical Perspectives</i> (1998) by Amélie Rorty, p. 294</li></ul></li> <li><b>We dream of journeys through the cosmos — Is the cosmos not then in us? We do not know the depths of our own spirit. — The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, is eternity with its worlds — the past and the future.</b></li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg/220px-Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg/330px-Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg/440px-Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3097" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Self-alienation is the source of all degradation as well as, on the contrary, the basis of all true elevation. The first step will be a look inward, an isolating contemplation of our self. Whoever remains standing here proceeds only halfway. The second step must be an active look outward, an autonomous, determined observation of the outer world. <ul><li>Fragment No. 24 Variant translation: <b>The first step is to look within, the discriminating contemplation of the self. He who remains at this point only half develops. The second step must be a telling look without, independent, sustained contemplation of the external world.</b></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>.</b> <ul><li>Fragment No. 32; Variant translations: We are on a mission.We are called to form the earth. <br /> We are on a mission.We are called to educate the earth.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.</b> <ul><li>Fragment No. 51; <i>Jeder geliebte Gegenstand ist der Mittelpunkt eines Paradieses.</i></li> <li>Variant translations:</li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><b>Every beloved object is the centre of a Paradise.</b> <ul><li>As quoted by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a> in "Novalis" (1829)</li></ul></dd> <dd><b>Every beloved object is the midpoint to paradise.</b></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The best thing about the <a href="/wiki/Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Sciences">sciences</a> is their <a href="/wiki/Philosophical" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophical">philosophical</a> ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Air" title="Air">air</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Water" title="Water">water</a>. <ul><li>Fragment No. 62</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Poets and priests were one in the beginning, and they only separated in later times. But the real poet is always a priest, just as the real priest always remains a poet. <ul><li>Fragment No. 71</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">Nothing</a> is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. <ul><li>Fragment No. 74</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bbrot225x225x24.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Bbrot225x225x24.PNG/220px-Bbrot225x225x24.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Bbrot225x225x24.PNG 1.5x" data-file-width="225" data-file-height="225" /></a><figcaption>Before <a href="/wiki/Abstraction" title="Abstraction">abstraction</a> everything is one, but one like <a href="/wiki/Chaos" title="Chaos">chaos</a>; after abstraction everything is united again, but this <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">union</a> is a free binding of autonomous, <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">self</a>-determined beings.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the <a href="/wiki/Shipbuilder" class="mw-redirect" title="Shipbuilder">shipbuilder</a>, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator. <ul><li>Fragment No. 88</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.</b> <ul><li>Fragment No. 91</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>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.</b> Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world. <ul><li>Fragment No. 95</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LYS59Cornfield.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/LYS59Cornfield.JPG/250px-LYS59Cornfield.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/LYS59Cornfield.JPG/330px-LYS59Cornfield.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/LYS59Cornfield.JPG/500px-LYS59Cornfield.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1103" data-file-height="687" /></a><figcaption>Where <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> are, there is a golden age.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>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. <ul><li>Fragment No. 96</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Where children are, there is a golden age.</b> <ul><li>Fragment No. 97</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Many counterrevolutionary books have been written in favor of the Revolution. But Burke has written a revolutionary book against the Revolution. <ul><li>Fragment No. 104; on <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>'s <i>Reflections on the Revolution in France</i> (1790).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty. <ul><li>Fragment No. 105</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet. <ul><li>Fragment No. 109</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented.</b> Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up! <ul><li>Fragment No. 114</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Unsequenced">Unsequenced</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Novalis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Unsequenced"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><b>These have been cited as being from <i>Blütenstaub</i> or <i>Blüthenstaub-Fragmente</i> or from <i>Fragments</i> but the "fragment" number is needed:</b></small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Messier_74_by_HST.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Messier_74_by_HST.jpg/250px-Messier_74_by_HST.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Messier_74_by_HST.jpg/330px-Messier_74_by_HST.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Messier_74_by_HST.jpg/500px-Messier_74_by_HST.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4014" data-file-height="3865" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> <a href="/wiki/Works" class="mw-redirect" title="Works">works</a> <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a>. It is the final <a href="/wiki/Purpose" title="Purpose">purpose</a> of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> story, the Amen of the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG/220px-Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG/330px-Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG/440px-Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The seat of the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i>Die Liebe wirkt magisch. <br /> Sie ist der Endzweck <br /> der Weltgeschichte, <br /> das Amen des Universums.</i> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> <a href="/wiki/Works" class="mw-redirect" title="Works">works</a> <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a>. <br /> It is the final <a href="/wiki/Purpose" title="Purpose">purpose</a> <br /> Of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> <a href="/wiki/Story" title="Story">story</a>, <br /> The Amen of the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>.</b> <ul><li>Variant translations:</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><b>Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.</b> <ul><li>As translated by W. Hastie in <i>Thoughts on Religion</i>, Pt. 1, "Hymns and Thoughts on Religion" (1888), edited by W. Hastie</li></ul></dd> <dd><b>Love is the final purpose of world history — the Amen of the universe.</b></dd> <dd><b>Love works magically...</b> <br /> <b>Love causes magic...</b></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Das höchste Leben ist Mathematik.</i> <ul><li>The highest life is <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Reine Mathematik ist Religion.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pure_mathematics" title="Pure mathematics">Pure mathematics</a> is <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man is a <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Senses" title="Senses">senses</a> are the planets.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The seat of the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> is where the inner world and the outer world meet.</b> Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pupils_at_Sais_(1799)"><span id="Pupils_at_Sais_.281799.29"></span><i>Pupils at Sais</i> (1799)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Novalis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pupils at Sais (1799)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><i>Die Lehrlinge zu Sais</i> [also translated as <i>The Apprentices at Sais</i>, <i>The Novices at Sais</i>] mostly as quoted by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a> in "Novalis" (1829)</small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg/220px-Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg/330px-Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg/440px-Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="726" /></a><figcaption>Men travel in manifold paths: whoso traces and compares these, will find strange Figures come to <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>; Figures which seem as if they belonged to that great Cipher-writing which one meets with everywhere...</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I. The Pupil. — <b>Men travel in manifold paths: whoso traces and compares these, will find <a href="/wiki/Strange" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange">strange</a> Figures come to <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>; Figures which seem as if they belonged to that great Cipher-writing which one meets with everywhere</b>, on wings of birds, shells of eggs, in <a href="/wiki/Clouds" title="Clouds">clouds</a>, in the snow, in crystals, in forms of rocks, in freezing waters, in the interior and exterior of mountains, of plants, animals, men, in the lights of the sky, in plates of glass and pitch when touched and struck on, in the filings round the magnet, and the singular conjunctures of Chance. In such Figures one anticipates the key to that wondrous Writing, the grammar of it; but this Anticipation will not fix itself into shape, and appears as if, after all, it would not become such a key for us. An <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkahest" class="extiw" title="w:Alkahest">Alcahest</a></i> seems poured out over the senses of men. Only for a moment will their wishes, their thoughts thicken into form. Thus do their Anticipations arise; but after short whiles, all is again swimming vaguely before them, even as it did.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lightning02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Lightning02.jpg/220px-Lightning02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Lightning02.jpg/330px-Lightning02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Lightning02.jpg/440px-Lightning02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="676" /></a><figcaption>Whoso speaks truly is full of <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, and wonderfully related to genuine <a href="/wiki/Mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Mysteries">mysteries</a> does his <a href="/wiki/Writing" title="Writing">Writing</a> appear to us, for it is a <a href="/wiki/Concord" class="mw-redirect" title="Concord">Concord</a> from the Symphony of the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">Universe</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>No explanation is required for <a href="/wiki/Holy" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy">Holy</a> <a href="/wiki/Writing" title="Writing">Writing</a>. Whoso speaks truly is full of <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, and wonderfully related to genuine <a href="/wiki/Mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Mysteries">mysteries</a> does his Writing appear to us, for it is a Concord from the Symphony of the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">Universe</a>.</b></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Close-up_of_Sirius.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Close-up_of_Sirius.jpg/220px-Close-up_of_Sirius.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Close-up_of_Sirius.jpg/330px-Close-up_of_Sirius.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Close-up_of_Sirius.jpg/440px-Close-up_of_Sirius.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2547" data-file-height="3272" /></a><figcaption>He watches in our <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a> whether the <a href="/wiki/Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Star">star</a> has yet risen upon us, which is to make the Figure visible and intelligible</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Surely this <a href="/wiki/Voice" title="Voice">voice</a> meant our <a href="/wiki/Teacher" class="mw-redirect" title="Teacher">Teacher</a>; for it is he that can collect the indications which lie scattered on all sides. A singular <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> kindles in his looks, when at length the high Rune lies before us, and he watches in our eyes whether the star has yet risen upon us, which is to make the Figure visible and intelligible.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Over his own <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> and his own <a href="/wiki/Thoughts" class="mw-redirect" title="Thoughts">thoughts</a> he watched attentively. He knew not whither his longing was carrying him.</b> As he grew up, he wandered far and wide; viewed other lands, other seas, new atmospheres, new rocks, unknown plants, animals, men; descended into caverns, saw how in courses and varying strata the edifice of the Earth was completed, and fashioned clay into strange figures of rocks. By and by, he came to find everywhere objects already known, but wonderfully mingled, united; and thus often extraordinary things came to shape in him. He soon became aware of combinations in all, of conjunctures, concurrences. <b>Erelong, he no more saw anything alone. — In great variegated images, the perceptions of his senses crowded round him; he heard, saw, touched and thought at once. He rejoiced to bring <a href="/wiki/Strangers" title="Strangers">strangers</a> together. <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">Now</a> the <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">stars</a> were men, now men were stars, the stones animals, the clouds plants; he sported with <a href="/wiki/Powers" class="mw-redirect" title="Powers">powers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Appearances" class="mw-redirect" title="Appearances">appearances</a>; he knew where and how this and that was to be found, to be brought into action; and so himself struck over the strings, for tones and touches of his own.</b></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RainbowFormation_DropletPrimary.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/RainbowFormation_DropletPrimary.png/220px-RainbowFormation_DropletPrimary.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/RainbowFormation_DropletPrimary.png 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>No one, of a surety, wanders farther from the mark than he who fancies to himself that he already <a href="/wiki/Understands" class="mw-redirect" title="Understands">understands</a> this marvellous <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_God" title="Kingdom of God">Kingdom</a>, and can, in few <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>, fathom its constitution, and everywhere find the <a href="/wiki/Right" class="mw-redirect" title="Right">right</a> path.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>What has passed with him since then he does not disclose to us. He tells us that we ourselves, led on by him and our own <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desire</a>, will discover what has passed with him.</b> Many of us have withdrawn from him. They returned to their parents, and learned trades. Some have been sent out by him, we know not whither; he selected them. Of these, some have been but a short time there, others longer. One was still a child; scarcely was he come, when our Teacher was for passing him any more instruction. This child had large dark eyes with azure ground, his skin shone like lilies, and his locks like light little clouds when it is growing evening. His voice pierced through all our hearts; willingly would we have given him our flowers, stones, pens, all we had. He smiled with an infinite earnestness; and we had a strange delight beside him. One day he will come again, said our Teacher, and then our lessons end. — Along with him he sent one, for whom we had often been sorry. Always sad he looked; he had been long years here; nothing would succeed with him; when we sought crystals or flowers, he seldom found. He saw dimly at a distance; to lay down variegated rows skilfully he had no power. He was so apt to break everything. Yet none had such eagerness, such pleasure in hearing and listening. At last, — it was before that Child came into our circle, — he all at once grew cheerful and expert. One day he had gone out sad; he did not return, and the night came on. We were very anxious for him; suddenly, as the morning dawned, we heard his voice in a neighbouring grove. He was singing a high, joyful song; we were all surprised; the Teacher looked to the East, such a look as I shall never see in him again. The singer soon came forth to us, and brought, with unspeakable blessedness on his face, a simple-looking little stone, of singular shape. The Teacher took it in his hand, and kissed him long; then looked at us with wet eyes, and laid this little stone on an empty space, which lay in the midst of other stones, just where, like radii, many rows of them met together.</li></ul> <ul><li>I shall in no time forget that moment. We felt as if we had had in our <a href="/wiki/Souls" class="mw-redirect" title="Souls">souls</a> a clear passing glimpse into this wondrous World.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prometheus_by_Gustave_Moreau.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Prometheus_by_Gustave_Moreau.jpg/220px-Prometheus_by_Gustave_Moreau.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="370" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Prometheus_by_Gustave_Moreau.jpg/330px-Prometheus_by_Gustave_Moreau.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Prometheus_by_Gustave_Moreau.jpg/440px-Prometheus_by_Gustave_Moreau.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1843" data-file-height="3101" /></a><figcaption>Long, unwearied intercourse, <a href="/wiki/Free" class="mw-redirect" title="Free">free</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wise" class="mw-redirect" title="Wise">wise</a> <a href="/wiki/Contemplation" title="Contemplation">Contemplation</a>, attention to faint tokens and indications; an inward poet-life, practised senses, a simple and devout spirit: these are the essential requisites of a true <a href="/wiki/Friend" class="mw-redirect" title="Friend">Friend</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>No one, of a surety, wanders farther from the mark than he who fancies to himself that he already <a href="/wiki/Understands" class="mw-redirect" title="Understands">understands</a> this marvellous <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_God" title="Kingdom of God">Kingdom</a>, and can, in few <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>, fathom its constitution, and everywhere find the right path.</b> To no one, who has broken off, and made himself an Island, will insight rise of itself, nor even without toilsome effort. Only to children, or childlike men, who know not what they do, can this happen. <b>Long, unwearied intercourse, free and wise Contemplation, attention to faint tokens and indications; an inward poet-life, practised senses, a simple and devout spirit: these are the essential requisites of a true Friend of Nature; without these no one can attain his wish.</b></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rainbow1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Rainbow1.svg/220px-Rainbow1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Rainbow1.svg/330px-Rainbow1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Rainbow1.svg/440px-Rainbow1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>We see a <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> <a href="/wiki/Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">Philosopher</a> in him who restlessly traces and questions all natural things...</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Not wise does it seem to attempt comprehending and understanding a Human World without full perfected Humanity. No talent must sleep; and if all are not alike active, all must be alert, and not oppressed and enervated. <b>As we see a future Painter in the boy who fills every wall with sketches and variedly adds colour to figure; so we see a future Philosopher in him who restlessly traces and questions all natural things, pays heed to all, brings together whatever is remarkable, and rejoices when he has become master and possessor of a new phenomenon, of a new power and piece of knowledge.</b></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hoag%27s_object.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/220px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/330px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/440px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1521" data-file-height="1489" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">Moral</a> <a href="/wiki/Action" title="Action">Action</a> is that <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> and only Experiment, in which all riddles of the most manifold <a href="/wiki/Appearances" class="mw-redirect" title="Appearances">appearances</a> explain themselves.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Now to Some it appears not at all worth while to follow out the endless divisions of Nature; and moreover a dangerous undertaking, without fruit and issue.</b> As we can never reach, say they, the absolutely smallest grain of material bodies, never find their simplest compartments, since all magnitude loses itself, forwards and backwards, in infinitude; so likewise is it with the species of bodies and powers; here too one comes on new species, new combinations, new appearances, even to infinitude. These seem only to stop, continue they, when our diligence tires; and so it is spending precious time with idle contemplations and tedious enumerations; and this becomes at last a true delirium, a real vertigo over the horrid Deep</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> too remains, so far as we have yet come, ever a frightful Machine of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">Death</a>: everywhere monstrous revolution, inexplicable vortices of movement; a kingdom of Devouring, of the maddest <a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">tyranny</a>; a baleful Immense: the few light-points disclose but a so much the more appalling <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">Night</a>, and terrors of all sorts must palsy every observer.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The waking man looks without <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> at this offspring of his lawless <a href="/wiki/Imagination" title="Imagination">Imagination</a>; for he knows that they are but vain Spectres of his weakness.</b> He feels himself lord of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>: his <i>me</i> hovers victorious over the Abyss; and will through Eternities hover aloft above that endless Vicissitude. <b><a href="/wiki/Harmony" title="Harmony">Harmony</a> is what his spirit strives to promulgate, to extend.</b> He will even to infinitude grow more and more harmonious with himself and with his Creation; and at every step behold the all-efficiency of a high moral Order in the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">Universe</a>, and what is purest of his <i>Me</i> come forth into brighter and brighter clearness. This significance of the World is <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">Reason</a>; for her sake is the World here; and when it is grown to be the arena of a childlike, expanding Reason, it will one day become the divine Image of her Activity, the scene of a genuine Church. Till then let man honour <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> as the Emblem of his own <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">Spirit</a>; the Emblem ennobling itself, along with him, to unlimited degrees. Let him, therefore, who would arrive at knowledge of Nature, train his moral sense, let him act and conceive in accordance with the noble Essence of his <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a>; and as if of herself Nature will become open to him. <b><a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">Moral</a> Action is that great and only Experiment, in which all riddles of the most manifold <a href="/wiki/Appearances" class="mw-redirect" title="Appearances">appearances</a> explain themselves.</b> Whoso understands it, and in rigid sequence of <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">Thought</a> can lay it open, is forever master of Nature.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg/220px-NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg/330px-NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg/440px-NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2240" data-file-height="1693" /></a><figcaption>Metaphysical <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a> stand related to one another, like <a href="/wiki/Thoughts" class="mw-redirect" title="Thoughts">thoughts</a> without <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Common Logic is the Grammar of the higher Speech, that is, of Thought; it examines merely the <i>relations</i> of ideas to one another, the <i>Mechanics</i> of Thought, the pure Physiology of ideas. Now logical ideas stand related to one another, like words without thoughts. Logic occupies itself with the mere dead Body of the Science of Thinking. — Metaphysics, again, is the <i>Dynamics</i> of Thought; treats of the primary <i>Powers</i> of Thought; occupies itself with the mere Soul of the Science of Thinking. Metaphysical ideas stand related to one another, like thoughts without words. <b>Men often wondered at the stubborn Incompletibility of these two Sciences; each followed its own business by itself; there was a want everywhere, nothing would suit rightly with either. From the very first, attempts were made to unite them, as everything about them indicated relationship; but every attempt failed; the one or the other Science still suffered in these attempts, and lost its essential character.</b> We had to abide by metaphysical Logic, and logical Metaphysic, but neither of them was as it should be.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg/220px-Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg/330px-Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg/440px-Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="488" /></a><figcaption>We had to abide by metaphysical <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">Logic</a>, and logical Metaphysic, but neither of them was as it should be.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The rude, discursive Thinker is the Scholastic (Schoolman Logician). The true Scholastic is a mystical Subtlist; out of logical Atoms he builds his Universe; he annihilates all living Nature, to put an Artifice of Thoughts (<i>Gedankenkunststuck</i>, literally Conjuror's-trick of Thoughts) in its room. His aim is an infinite Automaton. Opposite to him is the rude, intuitive Poet: this is a mystical Macrologist: he hates rules and fixed form; a wild, violent life reigns instead of it in Nature; all is animate, no law; wilfulness and wonder everywhere. He is merely dynamical. Thus does the Philosophic Spirit arise at first, in altogether separate masses. In the <i>second</i> stage of culture these masses begin to come in contact, multifariously enough; and, as in the union of infinite Extremes, the Finite, the Limited arises, so here also arise "Eclectic Philosophers" without number; the time of misunderstanding begins. The most limited is, in this stage, the most important, the purest Philosopher of the second stage. This class occupies itself wholly with the actual, present world, in the strictest sense. The Philosophers of the first class look down with contempt on those of the second; say, they are a little of everything, and so nothing; hold their views as the results of weakness, as Inconsequentism. On the contrary, the second class, in their turn, pity the first; lay the blame on their visionary enthusiasm, which they say is absurd, even to insanity.</li></ul> <ul><li>If on the one hand the Scholastics and Alchemists seem to be utterly at variance, and the Eclectics on the other hand quite at one, yet, strictly examined, it is altogether the reverse. The former, in essentials, are indirectly of one opinion; namely, as regards the non-dependence, and infinite character of Meditation, they both set out from the Absolute: whilst the Eclectic and limited sort are essentially at variance; and agree only in what is deduced. The former are infinite but uniform, the latter bounded but multiform; the former have genius, the latter talent; those have Ideas, these have knacks (Handgriffe); those are heads without hands, these are hands without heads. The <i>third</i> stage is for the Artist, who can be at once implement and genius. He finds that that primitive Separation in the absolute Philosophical Activities' (between the Scholastic, and the "rude, intuitive Poet") 'is a deeper-lying Separation in his own Nature; which Separation indicates, by its existence as such, the possibility of being adjusted, of being joined: he finds that, heterogeneous as these Activities are, there is yet a faculty in him of passing from the one to the other, of changing his <i>polarity</i> at will. <b>He discovers in them, therefore, necessary members of his spirit; he observes that both must be united in some common Principle. He infers that Eclecticism is nothing but the imperfect defective employment of this principle.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Someone arrived there — who lifted the veil of the <a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">goddess</a>, at Sais. — But what did he see? He saw — wonder of wonders — himself.</b> <ul><li>Novalis here alludes to <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>'s account of the shrine of the goddess <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva" class="extiw" title="w:Minerva">Minerva</a>, identified with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" class="extiw" title="w:Isis">Isis</a>, at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sais,_Egypt" class="extiw" title="w:Sais, Egypt">Sais</a>, which he reports had the inscription "I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised."</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novalis_(1829)"><span id="Novalis_.281829.29"></span>Novalis (1829)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Novalis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Novalis (1829)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Statements of Novalis as quoted in the essay "Novalis" by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a></small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taijitu_polarity.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Taijitu_polarity.PNG/250px-Taijitu_polarity.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Taijitu_polarity.PNG/330px-Taijitu_polarity.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Taijitu_polarity.PNG 2x" data-file-width="413" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>There is but one temple in the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">Universe</a> and that is the Body of <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">Man</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">Philosophy</a> can bake no bread; but she can procure for us <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">Freedom</a>, Immortality.</b> Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or <a href="/wiki/Economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Economy">Economy</a>? <ul><li>The first sentence of this was used by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Torrey_Harris" class="extiw" title="w:William Torrey Harris">William Torrey Harris</a> for the motto of the <i>Journal of Speculative Philosophy</i></li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Whirpool_Galaxy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Whirpool_Galaxy.jpg/220px-Whirpool_Galaxy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Whirpool_Galaxy.jpg/330px-Whirpool_Galaxy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Whirpool_Galaxy.jpg/440px-Whirpool_Galaxy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1645" data-file-height="2050" /></a><figcaption>All Fabulous Tales are merely <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a> of that home <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>, which is everywhere and nowhere.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i>Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh - Trieb überall zu Hause zu sein.</i> <ul><li><b>Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.</b></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We are near awakening when we <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> that we dream.</b> <ul><li>Variants:</li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><b>We are near waking when we dream that we dream.</b> <ul><li>As quoted by <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> in "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1844), adapted from <i>Fragments from German Prose Writers</i> (1841) by Sarah Austin</li></ul></dd> <dd>We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>The true philosophical <a href="/wiki/Action" title="Action">Act</a> is <a href="/wiki/Kenosis" title="Kenosis">annihilation of self</a> (<i>Selbsttodtung</i>); this is the real beginning of all <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">Philosophy</a></b>; all requisites for being a Disciple of Philosophy point hither. This Act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>To become properly acquainted with a <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>Man is the higher Sense of our Planet; the star which connects it with the upper world; the eye which it turns towards Heaven.</li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by Passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit.</li></ul> <ul><li>What is Nature? An encyclopedical, systematic Index or Plan of our Spirit. Why will we content us with the mere catalogue of our Treasures? Let us contemplate them ourselves, and in all ways elaborate and use them.</li></ul> <ul><li>If our Bodily Life is a burning, our Spiritual Life is a being burnt, a Combustion (or, is precisely the inverse the case?); Death, therefore, perhaps a Change of Capacity.</li></ul> <ul><li>Sleep is for the inhabitants of Planets only. In another time, Man will sleep and wake continually at once. <b>The greater part of our Body, of our Humanity itself, yet sleeps a deep sleep.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There is but one Temple in the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">World</a>; and that is the Body of <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">Man</a>.</b> Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. <b>We touch <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a>, when we lay our hand on a human body.</b> <ul><li>Variant translation: <b>There is but one temple in the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">Universe</a> and that is the Body of Man.</b> <ul><li>As inscribed on the Library of Congress, quoted in <i>Handbook of the New Library of Congress</i> (1897) by Herbert Small, p. 53</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Man is a <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a>; his Senses are the Planets.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Man has ever expressed some symbolical Philosophy of his Being in his Works and Conduct</b>; he announces himself and his Gospel of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a>; he is the <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">Messiah</a> of Nature.</li></ul> <ul><li>Plants are Children of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>; <b>we are Children of the Æther.</b> Our Lungs are properly our Root; we live, when we breathe; <b>we begin our life with breathing.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>Nature is an Æolian Harp, a musical instrument; whose tones again are keys to higher strings in us.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The first Man is the first Spirit-seer; all appears to him as Spirit.</b> What are children, but first men? The fresh gaze of the Child is richer in significance than the forecasting of the most indubitable Seer.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>It depends only on the weakness of our organs and of our self-excitement (<i>Selbstberuhrung</i>), that we do not see ourselves in a Fairy-world. All Fabulous Tales (<i>Mahrchen</i>) are merely dreams of that home world, which is everywhere and nowhere.</b> The higher powers in us, which one day as Genies, shall fulfil our will, are, for the present, Muses, which refresh us on our toilsome course with sweet remembrances.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/220px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/330px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/440px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Man consists in Truth. If he exposes Truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays Truth, he betrays himself.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Man consists in Truth. If he exposes Truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays Truth, he betrays himself.</b> We speak not here of lies, but of acting against Conviction.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>A character is a completely fashioned will.</b> (vollkommen gebildeter Wille<i>).</i></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There is, properly speaking, no Misfortune in the world.</b> Happiness and Misfortune stand in continual balance. Every Misfortune is, as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which, after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts through with the greater force.</li></ul> <ul><li>The ideal of Morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest Strength, of most powerful life; which also has been named (very falsely as it was there meant) the ideal of poetic greatness. <b>It is the maximum of the savage; and has, in these times, gained, precisely among the greatest weaklings, very many proselytes. By this ideal, man becomes a Beast-Spirit, a Mixture; whose brutal wit has, for weaklings, a brutal power of attraction.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>The spirit of Poesy is the morning light, which makes the Statue of Memnon sound.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The division of Philosopher and Poet is only apparent, and to the disadvantage of both. It is a sign of disease, and of a sickly constitution.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JUL_Soul_Iris.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/JUL_Soul_Iris.png/220px-JUL_Soul_Iris.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/JUL_Soul_Iris.png 1.5x" data-file-width="292" data-file-height="292" /></a><figcaption> The <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">Art</a> of a well-developed <a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">genius</a> is far different from the Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> … They are emblematic, have many meanings, are simple and inexhaustible, like products of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a>; and nothing more unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" class="extiw" title="w:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Goethe</a> is an altogether practical Poet.</b> He is in his works what the English are in their wares: highly simple, neat, convenient and durable. He has done in German Literature what Wedgwood did in English Manufacture. He has, like the English, a natural turn for Economy, and a noble Taste acquired by Understanding. Both these are very compatible, and have a near affinity in the chemical sense.</li></ul> <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meister%27s_Apprenticeship" class="extiw" title="w:Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship">Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship</a></i> may be called throughout prosaic and modern. The Romantic sinks to ruin, the Poesy of Nature, the Wonderful. The Book treats merely of common worldly things: Nature and Mysticism are altogether forgotten. It is a poetised civic and household History; the Marvellous is expressly treated therein as imagination and enthusiasm. Artistic Atheism is the spirit of the Book. ... It is properly a <i>Candide</i>, directed against Poetry: the Book is highly unpoetical in respect of spirit, poetical as the dress and body of it are. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> in "Goethe; or, the Writer" writes of this passage, and quotes a slightly different translation: The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book as "thoroughly modern and prosaic; the romantic is completely levelled in it; so is the poetry of nature; the wonderful. The book treats only of the ordinary affairs of men: it is a poeticized civic and domestic story. The wonderful in it is expressly treated as fiction and enthusiastic dreaming:" — and yet, what is also characteristic, Novalis soon returned to this book, and it remained his favorite reading to the end of his life.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When we speak of the aim and <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">Art</a> observable in <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare's</a> works, we must not forget that Art belongs to <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a>; that it is, so to speak, self-viewing, self-imitating, self-fashioning Nature. <b>The Art of a well-developed <a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">genius</a> is far different from the Artfulness of the <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">Understanding</a>, of the merely reasoning mind.</b> Shakspeare was no calculator, no learned thinker; he was a mighty, many-gifted <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>, whose feelings and works, like products of Nature, bear the stamp of the same <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a>; and in which the last and deepest of observers will still find new harmonies with the infinite structure of the Universe; concurrences with later ideas, affinities with the higher powers and senses of man. <b>They are emblematic, have many meanings, are simple and inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Novalis">Quotes about Novalis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Novalis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Quotes about Novalis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Novalis_bust.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Novalis_bust.jpg/220px-Novalis_bust.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Novalis_bust.jpg/330px-Novalis_bust.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Novalis_bust.jpg/440px-Novalis_bust.jpg 2x" data-file-width="656" data-file-height="693" /></a><figcaption> Novalis <a href="/wiki/Expresses" class="mw-redirect" title="Expresses">expresses</a> himself in a unique, personal style, almost as if he has discovered <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> by himself. … Novalis himself wrote that he felt it <a href="/wiki/Necessary" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessary">necessary</a> to develop a <a href="/wiki/Symbolic" class="mw-redirect" title="Symbolic">symbolic</a> <a href="/wiki/Philosophical" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophical">philosophical</a> <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Purpose" title="Purpose">purpose</a> of protecting his deepest insights from those incapable of <a href="/wiki/Respecting" class="mw-redirect" title="Respecting">respecting</a> them. ~ Graham Brown</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flowers_076.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flowers_076.jpg/220px-Flowers_076.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flowers_076.jpg/330px-Flowers_076.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flowers_076.jpg/440px-Flowers_076.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3078" data-file-height="2046" /></a><figcaption>Novalis is known as the originator of the central <a href="/wiki/Symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="Symbol">symbol</a> of the German Romanticism, The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Flower" class="extiw" title="w:Blue Flower">Blue Flower</a>; he shared in the movement’s deification of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a>, the demand for the Absolute, the idea of <a href="/wiki/Spiritual" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual">spiritual</a> rebirth. ~ Graham Brown</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small>Alphabetized by author or source </small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Weissenfels_Hardenberg_Novalis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Weissenfels_Hardenberg_Novalis.jpg/220px-Weissenfels_Hardenberg_Novalis.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="426" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Weissenfels_Hardenberg_Novalis.jpg/330px-Weissenfels_Hardenberg_Novalis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Weissenfels_Hardenberg_Novalis.jpg/440px-Weissenfels_Hardenberg_Novalis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="1860" /></a><figcaption>For Novalis the <a href="/wiki/Poetic" class="mw-redirect" title="Poetic">poetic</a> in the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> was the only genuine <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, even as the poetic <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a> in man was the <a href="/wiki/Proof" title="Proof">proof</a> of man’s <a href="/wiki/Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine">divine</a> origin. All of his poetry is concerned ultimately with <a href="/wiki/Revealing" class="mw-redirect" title="Revealing">revealing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Celebrating" class="mw-redirect" title="Celebrating">celebrating</a> the poetic spirit. ~ Bruce Haywood</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Novalis has been, and remains, one of the most vital influences in German literature</b>; the modern <a href="/wiki/Mystics" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystics">mystics</a>: <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck" title="Maurice Maeterlinck">Maeterlinck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herman_Hesse" class="mw-redirect" title="Herman Hesse">Herman Hesse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke" title="Rainer Maria Rilke">Rilke</a> (often considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century) admit a great debt to him. ... Novalis expresses himself in a unique, personal style, almost as if he has discovered <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> by himself. ... <b>Novalis himself wrote that he felt it necessary to develop a <a href="/wiki/Symbolic" class="mw-redirect" title="Symbolic">symbolic</a> philosophical language for the purpose of protecting his deepest insights from those incapable of respecting them.</b> In this he has not been alone — if we look at the <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sufis" class="mw-redirect" title="Sufis">Sufis</a> we often find mystical concepts veiled in poetic terms. ... The principle mode of concealment is the use of imagery. Images are used to veil meaning, but for those who share Novalis' love of symbolic imagery and subtle <a href="/wiki/Metaphor" class="mw-redirect" title="Metaphor">metaphor</a> his language is a veil that enhances, rather than conceals, the <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> of his art. This use of concrete, palpable images overcame, to some extent, what he described as the “poverty of words”; and avoided the use of philosophical terms to express abstract concepts. In some instances spiritual qualities are personified as characters, human or divine, as they are in <a href="/wiki/Hindu" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> mythology... <b>Novalis is known as the originator of the central symbol of the German Romanticism, The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Flower" class="extiw" title="w:Blue Flower">Blue Flower</a>; he shared in the movement's deification of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a>, the demand for the Absolute, the idea of spiritual rebirth. ... Novalis, like other poets of the period, wanted to return to the sense of the Sacred found in the humbler Medieval tradition with its great mystics such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_von_Bingen" class="extiw" title="w:Hildegard von Bingen">Hildegard von Bingen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a>.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sol.com.au/kor/19_01.htm">Graham Brown in "Novalis' Spiral Path"</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Novalis is a figure of such importance in German Literature, that no student of it can pass him by without attention.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a> in "Novalis" (1829)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Novalis's ideas, on what has been called the 'perfectibility of man,' ground themselves on his peculiar views of the constitution of material and spiritual Nature, and are of the most original and extraordinary character.</b> With our utmost effort, we should despair of communicating other than a quite false notion of them. <b>He asks, for instance, with scientific gravity: Whether any one, that recollects the first kind glance of her he loved, can doubt the possibility of <i>Magic?</i></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a> in "Novalis" (1829)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>As a Poet, Novalis is no less Idealistic than as a Philosopher.</b> His poems are breathings of a high devout soul, feeling always that here he has no home, but looking, as in clear vision, to a 'city that hath foundations.' He loves external Nature with a singular depth; nay, we might say, he reverences her, and holds unspeakable communings with her: for Nature is no longer dead, hostile Matter, but the veil and mysterious Garment of the Unseen; as it were, the Voice with which the Deity proclaims himself to man. These two qualities, -- his pure religious temper, and heartfelt love of Nature, — bring him into true poetic relation both with the spiritual and the material World, and perhaps constitute his chief worth as a Poet; for which art he seems to have originally a genuine, but no exclusive or even very decided endowment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a> in "Novalis" (1829)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The ardent and holy Novalis... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> describing Novalis, as prelude to quoting his views on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meister%27s_Apprenticeship" class="extiw" title="w:Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship">Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship</a></i> (1795) in "Goethe; or, the Writer".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>For Novalis the poetic in the world was the only genuine reality</b>, even as the poetic spirit in man was the proof of man's divine origin. All of his poetry is concerned ultimately with revealing and celebrating the poetic spirit. <ul><li>Bruce Haywood, in <i>Novalis, the Veil of Imagery: A Study of the Poetic Works of Friedrich Von Hardenberg, 1772-1801</i> (1959), p. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In this season, Novalis lived only to his sorrow; it was natural for him to regard the visible and the invisible world as one; and to distinguish Life and Death only by his longing for the latter. At the same time too, Life became for him a glorified Life; and his whole being melted away as into a bright, conscious vision of a higher Existence. ... He remained many weeks in Thuringia; and came back comforted and truly purified, to his engagements; which he pursued more zealously than ever, though he now regarded himself as a stranger on the earth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Tieck" title="Ludwig Tieck">Ludwig Tieck</a>, on the moods of Novalis after the death of his fiancée <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_von_K%C3%BChn" class="extiw" title="w:Sophie von Kühn">Sophie von Kühn</a>, as quoted in "Novalis" (1829) by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Never was he seen languid or exhausted, never out of spirits or out of humor. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Tieck" title="Ludwig Tieck">Ludwig Tieck</a>, as quoted in <i>Fragments from German Prose Writers</i> (1841) translated by Sarah Austin, p. 305</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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align="center" colspan="3"><b>Conservative intellectuals</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:blue;color:white" align="center">France</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Bainville" title="Jacques Bainville">Bainville</a> · <a href="/wiki/Alain_de_Benoist" title="Alain de Benoist">de Benoist</a> · <a href="/wiki/Georges_Bernanos" title="Georges Bernanos">Bernanos</a> · <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon" title="Gustave Le Bon">Le Bon</a> · <a href="/wiki/Louis_de_Bonald" title="Louis de Bonald">de Bonald</a> · <a href="/wiki/Jacques-B%C3%A9nigne_Bossuet" title="Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet">Bossuet</a> · <a href="/wiki/Pascal_Bruckner" title="Pascal Bruckner">Bruckner</a> · <a href="/wiki/Renaud_Camus" title="Renaud Camus">Camus</a> · <a href="/wiki/Alexis_Carrel" title="Alexis Carrel">Carrel</a> · <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Ren%C3%A9_de_Chateaubriand" title="François-René de Chateaubriand">de Chateaubriand</a> · <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim" title="Émile Durkheim">Durkheim</a> · <a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Faye" title="Guillaume Faye">Faye</a> · <a href="/wiki/Numa_Denis_Fustel_de_Coulanges" title="Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges">Fustel de Coulanges</a> · <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Faguet" title="Émile Faguet">Faguet</a> · <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard" title="René Girard">Girard</a> · <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Gu%C3%A9non" title="René Guénon">Guénon</a> · <a href="/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq" title="Michel Houellebecq">Houellebecq</a> · <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_de_Jouvenel" title="Bertrand de Jouvenel">de Jouvenel</a> · <a href="/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre" title="Joseph de Maistre">de Maistre</a> · <a href="/wiki/Charles_Maurras" title="Charles Maurras">Maurras</a> · <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Renan" title="Ernest Renan">Renan</a> · <a href="/wiki/Antoine_de_Rivarol" title="Antoine de Rivarol">de Rivarol</a> · <a href="/wiki/Hippolyte_Taine" title="Hippolyte Taine">Taine</a> · <a href="/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville" title="Alexis de Tocqueville">de Tocqueville</a> · <a href="/wiki/%C3%89ric_Zemmour" title="Éric Zemmour">Zemmour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:blue;color:white" align="center">Germanosphere</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Burckhardt" title="Jacob Burckhardt">Burckhardt</a> · <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte" title="Johann Gottlieb Fichte">Fichte</a> · <a href="/wiki/Johann_Georg_Hamann" title="Johann Georg Hamann">Hamann</a> · <a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Hegel</a> · <a href="/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger">Heidegger</a> · <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder" title="Johann Gottfried Herder">Herder</a> · <a href="/wiki/Ernst_J%C3%BCnger" title="Ernst Jünger">Jünger</a> · <a href="/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn" title="Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn">von Kuehnelt-Leddihn</a> · <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Klages" title="Ludwig Klages">Klages</a> · <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz" title="Konrad Lorenz">Lorenz</a> · <a href="/wiki/Karl_L%C3%B6with" title="Karl Löwith">Löwith</a> · <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Mann</a> · <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Moeller_van_den_Bruck" title="Arthur Moeller van den Bruck">van den Bruck</a> · <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzsche</a> · <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Nolte" title="Ernst Nolte">Nolte</a> · <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Novalis</a> · <a href="/wiki/Josef_Pieper" title="Josef Pieper">Pieper</a> · <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Rauschning" title="Hermann Rauschning">Rauschning</a> · <a href="/wiki/Leopold_von_Ranke" title="Leopold von Ranke">von Ranke</a> · <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6pke" title="Wilhelm Röpke">Röpke</a> · <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schlegel" title="Friedrich Schlegel">Schlegel</a> · <a href="/wiki/Carl_Schmitt" title="Carl Schmitt">Schmitt</a> · <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sloterdijk" title="Peter Sloterdijk">Sloterdijk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Helmut_Schoeck" title="Helmut Schoeck">Schoeck</a> · <a href="/wiki/Oswald_Spengler" title="Oswald Spengler">Spengler</a> · <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_von_Treitschke" title="Heinrich von Treitschke">von Treitschke</a> · <a href="/wiki/Otto_Weininger" title="Otto Weininger">Weininger</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:blue;color:white" align="center">Iberia / Latin America</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Olavo_de_Carvalho" title="Olavo de Carvalho">de Carvalho</a> · <a href="/wiki/Juan_Donoso_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Juan Donoso Cortés">Cortés</a> · <a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_G%C3%B3mez_D%C3%A1vila" title="Nicolás Gómez Dávila">Dávila</a> · <a href="/wiki/Gonzalo_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_la_Mora" title="Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora">Fernández de la Mora y Mon</a> · <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset" title="José Ortega y Gasset">Ortega y Gasset</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:blue;color:white" align="center">United Kingdom</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Martin_Amis" title="Martin Amis">Amis</a> · <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Arnold</a> · <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Balfour</a> · <a href="/wiki/Walter_Bagehot" title="Walter Bagehot">Bagehot</a> · <a href="/wiki/Hilaire_Belloc" title="Hilaire Belloc">Belloc</a> · <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Burke</a> · <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Carlyle</a> · <a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. 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