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

Novalis (1829)

“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.”

Novalis (1829)

“Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.”

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Fragment No. 1; Variant: We seek the absolute everywhere and only ever find things.
Blüthenstaub (1798)

“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.”

Fichte Studies § 556

“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.”

Novalis (1829)

“Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.”

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Motto
Blüthenstaub (1798)

“To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.”

Quoted in The Viking Book of Aphorisms by Wystan Hugh Auden (1962) p. 323

“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.”

As quoted in the Fourth Leaflet of the White Rose (1942)

“Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.”

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Fragment No. 91
Blüthenstaub (1798)

“Many counterrevolutionary books have been written in favor of the Revolution. But Burke has written a revolutionary book against the Revolution.”

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Fragment No. 104; on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
Blüthenstaub (1798)

“To philosophize means to make vivid.”

“Humanity is a comic role.”

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand”

“Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.”

Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh - Trieb überall zu Hause zu sein.
Novalis (1829)
Variant: Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

“Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”

“The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.”

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.”

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

“We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.”

Variants:
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Variant: We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

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