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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
Engineer
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Philosopher
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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 world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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