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Full Idea
Every person has his own language. Language is the expression of the spirit.
Gist of Idea
Every person has his own language
Source
Novalis (Logological Fragments I [1798], 91)
Book Ref
Novalis: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Stoljar,M.M. [SUNY 1997], p.65
A Reaction
Nice to see someone enthusiastically affirming what was later famously denied, and maybe even disproved.
22025 | Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard] |
19579 | The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis] |
19580 | If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis] |
19581 | A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis] |
19582 | Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis] |
19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
19584 | Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis] |
19585 | Every person has his own language [Novalis] |
22027 | Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis] |
22067 | Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis] |