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• Character and fate are two words for the same thing

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  Character, Fate, Two

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• In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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  Soul, Cheerful, Wit

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• Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

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  Epic, Men, Dramatic

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.65, SUNY Press

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• There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

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  Men, Hands, Heaven

  Novalis (1995). “Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson ("B.V.") of Hymns to night”

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• Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

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  Delicacy, Delicate

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• Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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  Life, Literature, Paradise

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

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  Sympathy, Soul, Unions

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• A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.

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  Men, Solitude, Mind

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• The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

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  Soul, World, Seats

  Novalis (1960). “Hymns to the night: and other selected writings”

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• Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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  Philosophy, Home, Wish

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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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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  Character, Fate, Realizing

  Heinrich von Ofterdingen bk. 2 (1802). Often quoted as "character is destiny" or "character is fate." See George Eliot 6; Heraclitus 2

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• Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

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  Lying, Sacrifice, Men

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.29, SUNY Press

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• We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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  Dream, Wake Up, Waking

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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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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  Philosophy, Ideas, Self

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.48, SUNY Press

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• Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

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  God, Spiritual, Moving

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 2, 1798.

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• Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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  Art, Artist, Meaning Of Life

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• Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

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  Men, Literature, Married

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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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  Children, Childhood, Earth

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.31, SUNY Press

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• We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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  Literature, Can Do

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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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• Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

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  Pain, Soul, Mind

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.34, SUNY Press

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• Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

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  Eye, Heaven, Humanity

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.68, SUNY Press

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• Nature is a petrified magic city.

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  Cities, Magic, Literature

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• Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

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  Islands, England, Englishmen

  "Fragments". Book by Novalis, 1799.

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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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