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Full Idea
Novalis came to think that the kind of existence , or 'being', that is disclosed in self-consciousness remains, as it were, forever out of our reach because of the kind of temporal creatures we are.
Gist of Idea
Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures
Source
report of Novalis (Logological Fragments I [1798]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 06
Book Ref
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.145
A Reaction
It looks here as if Novalis kicked Heidegger's Dasein into the long grass before it even got started, but maybe they have different notions of 'being', with Novalis seeking timeless being, and Heidegger, influenced by Bergson, accepting temporality.
| 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] |