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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
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Philosophy can bake no bread but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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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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Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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