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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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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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