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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Novalis
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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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