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Novalis Quotes on Truth

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, who published under the pen name Novalis, was a German poet, mystic, and philosopher of early Romanticism. This page collects quotes attributed to Novalis on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Novalis:

    “Philosophy is properly homesickness, the wish to be everywhere at home.”

  • Attributed to Novalis:

    “We seek the absolute everywhere and only ever find things.”

  • Attributed to Novalis:

    “The world must be romanticized.”

  • Attributed to Novalis:

    “Inward goes the mysterious path; eternity, with its worlds, lies within us.”