Novalis
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The opening chapters distinguish various sorts of “tale,” with references to Herman Melville, Nikolai Gogol and others, moving on to German authors, including Goethe and Novalis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Abrams quotes the 18th-century German Romantic Novalis: "The higher philosophy is concerned with the marriage of Nature and Mind."
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022
Fragments also needed “little research and could be composed over a glass of wine or a meal,” Wulf writes, making them perfect for young Friedrich Schlegel and his friend Novalis.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
That pronouncement, by the German writer Novalis, appears as an epigraph to “The Blue Flower,” Penelope Fitzgerald’s great historical novel about him.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
"A character," says Novalis, "is a completely fashioned will:" and the will, once so fashioned, may be steady and constant, when the passive susceptibilities of pleasure and pain are greatly weakened, or materially changed.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
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