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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
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