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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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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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