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Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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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 mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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