How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism.
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About Novalis
Novalis was a 18th-century German poet and writer. Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Education — The importance of teaching, learning, and intellectual curiosity