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Humanity is a comic role.
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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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