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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
Engineer
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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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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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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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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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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