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Join the roomGeorg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, mejor conocido por su seudónimo Novalis, fue un aristócrata y polímata alemán, que fue poeta, novelista, filósofo y místico. Es considerado una figura influyente en el Romanticismo de Jena.
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“Unser Leben ist kein Traum, aber es soll und wird vielleicht einer werden.”
“Die Möglichkeit aller Philosophie ... dass sich die Intelligenz durch Selbstberührung eine Selbstgesezmäßige Bewegung - d.i. eine eigne Form der Tätigkeit gibt.”
“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.”
“The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.”
“Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?”
“Nature too remains, so far as we have yet come, ever a frightful Machine of Death: everywhere monstrous revolution, inexplicable vortices of movement; a kingdom of Devouring, of the maddest tyranny; a baleful Immense: the few light-points disclose but a so much the more appalling Night, and terrors of all sorts must palsy every observer.”
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Not who you're looking for? Others named Novalis: German musical group; 1970s Krautrock band