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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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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Philosophy can bake no bread but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
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A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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