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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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