Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
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“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.”
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“We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.”
“Je bornierter ein System ist, desto mehr wird es den Weltklugen gefallen.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”
“Where no gods are, spectres rule.”
“Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.”
“A character is a completely fashioned will.”
“Where children are, there is the golden age.”
“Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.”