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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
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought many more, to be spoken.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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