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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Our life is no Dream, but it may and will perhaps become one.
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Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.
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Not wise does it seem to attempt comprehending and understanding a Human World without full perfected Humanity. No talent must sleep; and if all are not alike active, all must be alert, and not oppressed and enervated. As we see a future Painter in the boy who fills every wall with sketches and variedly adds colour to figure; so we see a future Philosopher in him who restlessly traces and questions all natural things, pays heed to all, brings together whatever is remarkable, and rejoices when he has become master and possessor of a new phenomenon, of a new power and piece of knowledge.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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I shall in no time forget that moment. We felt as if we had had in our souls a clear passing glimpse into this wondrous World.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Sleep is for the inhabitants of Planets only. In another time, Man will sleep and wake continually at once. The greater part of our Body, of our Humanity itself, yet sleeps a deep sleep.
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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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The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self (Selbsttodtung); this is the real beginning of all Philosophy; all requisites for being a Disciple of Philosophy point hither. This Act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe.
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Man consists in Truth. If he exposes Truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays Truth, he betrays himself. We speak not here of lies, but of acting against Conviction.
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There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of events, so that it seems imperfect, and its consequences are equally imperfect. Thus with the Reformation; instead of Protestantism came Lutheranism.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.
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The ideal of Morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest Strength, of most powerful life; which also has been named (very falsely as it was there meant) the ideal of poetic greatness. It is the maximum of the savage; and has, in these times, gained, precisely among the greatest weaklings, very many proselytes. By this ideal, man becomes a Beast-Spirit, a Mixture; whose brutal wit has, for weaklings, a brutal power of attraction.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
May 2, 1772
Died:
March 25, 1801
(aged 28)
Bio:
Novalis was the pseudonym and pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a poet, author, mystic, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism.
Known for:
Hymner til natten (1800)
Novalis: Philosophical Writings
The Novices of Sais
Henry Von Ofterdingen: A Novel
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