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
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Attributed to Novalis:
“Philosophy is properly homesickness, the wish to be everywhere at home.”
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“We seek the absolute everywhere and only ever find things.”
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things. -
Attributed to Novalis:
“The world must be romanticized.”
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“Inward goes the mysterious path; eternity, with its worlds, lies within us.”
Fragment No. 16 | Other translations: We dream of a journey through the universe. But is the universe then not in us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. Inward goes the secret path. Eternity with its worlds, the past and the future, is in us or nowhere. Frederick C. Beiser, " Bildung in Early German Romanticism", Amélie Rorty (ed.) Philosophers on Education: Historical Perspectives (1998) p.