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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
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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 become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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