Time and space come into being together and are therefore probably one, like subject and object. Space is enduring time — time is fluid, variable space. Space — the basis of everything enduring — time — the basis of everything changeable.

Novalis, General Draft

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772), pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic.

“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

Novalis

Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen: A Romance [originally published 1802]

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that's what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That's where you are. You've got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

— Joseph Campbell

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

― Novalis

Full of faith and longing and loyalty.

— Novalis, Hymns to the Night, transl by Dick Higgins, (1988)

Kiko Kostadinov x ASICS NOVALIS GEL-Teremoa

ASICS NOVALIS by Kiko Kostidinov

Where are we really going? Always home.

— Novalis (aka Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg), “Hymns to the Night” (original title: “Hymnen an die Nacht”). (Friedrich Schlegel in the Athenaeum, 1800)

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

― Novalis

Poetry is the hero of philosophy. Philosophy raises poetry to the status of a principle. It teaches us to recognize the worth of poetry. Philosophy is the theory of poetry. It shows us what poetry is, that it is one and all.

Novalis, Logological Fragments II

Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen: A Romance [originally published 1802]

“In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.” - Novalis

Philosophy is really homesickness, an urge to be at home everywhere. Where, then, are we going? Always to our home.

Fragments by Novalis

Chaque maladie est un problème musical ; et la guérison est une solution musicale. Plus la solution est brève et cependant complète, plus grand est le talent musical du médecin. Novalis, Fragments, Éditions José Corti, 1992

Away I turn to the holy, the unspeakable, the secretive Night.

— Novalis, Hymns to the Night, transl by Dick Higgins, (1988)