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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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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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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
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