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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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 highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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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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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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 touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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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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The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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