Friederich von Hardenberg - Collected Quotes

"All historic science tends to become mathematical. Mathematical power is classifying power." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"All Mathematics is, properly speaking, an equation on a great scale for the other sciences." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"In the end mathematics is but simple philosophy, and philosophy, higher mathematics in general." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"Mathematics is the life supreme. The life of the gods is mathematics. All divine messengers are mathematicians. Pure mathematics is religion. Its attainment requires a theophany." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"Miracles, considered as antinatural facts, are amathematical, but there are no miracles in this sense, and those so called may be comprehended by means of mathematics, for to mathematics nothing is miraculous." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"Music has much resemblance to algebra." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"One may be a mathematician of the first rank without being able to compute. It is possible to be a great computer without having the slightest idea of mathematics." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"Pure mathematics is not concerned with magnitude. It is merely the doctrine of notation of relatively ordered thought operations which have become mechanical." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"Pure mathematics is the magician's real wand." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"The concept of mathematics is the concept of science in general." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"The mathematical method is the essence of mathematics. He who fully comprehends the method is a mathematician." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"The real mathematician is an enthusiast per se. Without enthusiasm no mathematics." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])

"What logarithms are to mathematics that mathematics are to the other sciences." (Friederich von Hardenberg [Novalis])