Quotes About Novalis

The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That's where you are. You've got to keep both going. As Novalis said, The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet. Joseph Campbell, 1991, The Power of Myth, pp.68-69

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

For the tragedy of our lives is not created entirely from within. Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms,–character is destiny. But not the whole of our destiny.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

The materialistic conception of nature did not go unchallenged during the nineteenth century, particularly in art and literature where the romantic movement sought to re-establish a more intimate bond with nature and the indwelling spirit within nature. The philosophical Romantic poets like Novalis devoted themselves most of all to the theme of nature and its significance for man.

Who anyway can define the borderline between gnosis and poetic knowledge? The two modes are not identical, and yet they interpenetrate one another. Are we to call the gnosis of Novalis, Blake, and Shelley a knowledge that is not poetic? In domesticating the Sufis in our imagination, Corbin renders Ibn 1 Arabi and Suhrawardi as a Blakl· and a Shelley whose precursor is not Milton but the Koran.

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

Hegel, marele mag din Suabia, a implinit minunea pe care nici un Merlin n-o încercase vreodata,a f?cut s? devin? real? marea aspiratie a romanticilor. Novalis visa o poezie care s? nu spun? nimic;- Hegel a construit o întreag? filozofie care nu semnific? nimic.

Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night ? the duration of sleep eternal.

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.

Up to now our thinking was either purely mechanical - discursive - atomistic - or purely intuitive - dynamic. Perhaps now the time for union has come?

Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night's beloved in this earthly labour of the day.

mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects.

I am a profoundly anti-juridical man. . . . I have neither any sense of law or need for law.

In the end, the comprehensibility of phenomena rests upon faith and will. If I make a mystery of a manifestation, then it is a mystery for me. It is therefore the same with boundaries.

Ra?iunea ?i fantezia sunt religie - ra?iunea ?i inteligen?a, ?tiin??.