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• Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.

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  Lying, Men, Ideas

  "Bluthenstaub (Pollen)". Book by Novalis (Fragment No. 88), 1798.

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• Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.

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  Dream, Light, Vision

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• One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

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  Doe, Want, Language

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• The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.

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  World, Way, Originals

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• It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

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  Sympathy, Mind, Gains

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• Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former altars all together, hear about the works of peace, and hold a great celebration of peace with fervent tears before the smoking altars.

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  Blood, Europe, Circles

  White Rose - Leaflet 4, libcom.org. 1942.

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• The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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  Artist, Pedestal, Doe

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.55, SUNY Press

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• Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

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  Fate, Names, Temperament

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, translated by W.J. Strachan, 1972.

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• Character is a perfectly educated will.

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  Character, Educated

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• A God-intoxicated man.
  [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]

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  God, Men, Intoxicated

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• Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Perfect, Design

  "Novalis: Fichte Studies". Book by Novalis, edited by Jane Kneller, §651, 2003.

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• There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

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  Powerful, Spring, Real

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