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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
Engineer
Literary Theorist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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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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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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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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