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Full Idea
Poetry is true idealism - contemplation of the world as contemplation of a large mind - self-consciousness of the universe.
Gist of Idea
Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe
Source
Novalis (Logological Fragments I [1798], vol 3 p.640), quoted by Ernst Behler - Early German Romanticism
Book Ref
'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.77
A Reaction
It looks like the step from Fichte's idealism to the Absolute is poetry, which embraces the ultimate Spinozan substance through imagination. Or something...
| 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] |