Quote #93

Novalis is a figure of such importance in German Literature, that no student of it can pass him by without attention.

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  1. Novalis has been, and remains, one of the most vital influences in German literature; the modern mystics: Maeterlinck, Herman Hesse and Ril…
  2. Novalis's ideas, on what has been called the 'perfectibility of man,' ground themselves on his peculiar views of the constitution of materi…
  3. We shall never entirely comprehend ourselves, but we will and can do much more than comprehend ourselves.
  4. As a Poet, Novalis is no less Idealistic than as a Philosopher. His poems are breathings of a high devout soul, feeling always that here he…
  5. To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
  6. The world state is the body, which is - animated by the world of beauty, the world of sociability. It is the necessary instrument of this w…
  7. For Novalis the poetic in the world was the only genuine reality, even as the poetic spirit in man was the proof of man's divine origin. Al…
  8. The spirit is perpetually proving itself.

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