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• The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Past

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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  Faith, Half, One Half

  Novalis, Arthur Versluis (1989). “Pollen and fragments: selected poetry and prose of Novalis”, Phanes Pr

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• Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

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  Philosophy, Heart, Mean

  "Novalis: Fichte Studies". Book by Novalis, edited by Jane Kneller, §556, 2003.

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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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  Genius, Moral, Poetic

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.57, SUNY Press

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• The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

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  Bible, Men, Cities

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• We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

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  Hands, Heaven, Body

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

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  Philosophy, Waking, Kind

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.155, SUNY Press

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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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  Clever, Opponents, Way

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 105, 1798.

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• Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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  Men, Sun, Planets

  As quoted in the essay "Novalis" by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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  Christian, Men, Rights

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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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  Self, World, Unions

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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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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  Stars, Past, Age

  "Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy". Book by Géza von Molnár, p. 2, 1987.

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• Nature is a petrified magic city.

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  Cities, Magic, Literature

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• The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

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  Thinking, Brain, World

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• To philosophize means to make vivid.

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  Mean, Vivid

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• Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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  Absolutes

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 1, 1798.

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• It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

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  Spring, Flower, Air

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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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  Literature, Firsts

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Character is perfectly educated will.

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  Inspirational, Character, Educated

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• Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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  Philosophy, Home, Desire

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• The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

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  World, May, Way

  "The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany". Book by Antoine Berman, 1992.

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• All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

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  Transition, Stuff, Action

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• What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

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  Doe, Delight, Pleasure

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• The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

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  Philosophical, Air, Water

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 62, 1798.

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• We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

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  Earth, Missions, Cultivation

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 32, 1798.

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