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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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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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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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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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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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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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