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Novalis Biography

Novalis (German: [noˈvaːlɪs]) was the pseudonym and pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), a poet, author, mystic, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism. Hardenberg's professional work and university background, namely his study of mineralogy and management of salt mines in Saxony, was often ignored by his contemporary readers. The first studies showing important relations between his literary and professional works started in the 1960s.

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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Knowing, Poet, True, World

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Gods, Life, Math, Mathematics

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Badge, Badges, Honesty, Simplicity

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

Become, Distance, Mountain, Mountains, People, Turns

A God-intoxicated man. [Ger. , Gott-trunkener Mensch. ]

Ger, God, Intoxicated, Man, Men, Mensch

There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

Done, Hands, Heaven, High, Lay, Men

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

Cure, Disease, Music, Problem, Solution

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Can Do, Completely, Comprehend, Literature

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 shipbuilder, 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.

Capable, Idea, Ideas, Lacks, Lying, Men

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Eye, Heaven, Humanity, Meaning, Planet, World

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Delicacy, Delicate, Spoken, Things, Thought

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.

Agility, Human, Precipitation, Speak, World

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Final, History, Life, Love, Magic, Stories

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Air, Body, Organic, Philosophical, Thing, Water

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Attentiveness, Kind, Perceptibility

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

Art, Chaos, Order, Shimmer, Veil, Veils

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

Brain, Genitals, Producers, Thinking, World

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Echoes, Harp, Musical, Nature, Tone, Tones

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Hero, Knows, Memorial Day, Minute, Motivational

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Divinity, Links, Literature, Mediator, Nothing

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