The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Novalis
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About Novalis
Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure in Jena Romanticism.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by NovalisTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Where children are, there is the golden age.