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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
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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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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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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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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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 complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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