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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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 world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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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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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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