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The poem of the understanding is 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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
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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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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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