Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal. - Novalis

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Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.

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Baron Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801) was an author, philosopher and poet of early German Romanticism. He is most commonly known by the pseudonym Novalis (denoting a "clearer of new land" — derived from a tradition of his ancestors, who had called themselves de Novali).

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Alternative Names: Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg Friedrich von Hardenberg
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The highest task of education is — to take command of one’s transcendental self — to be at once the I of its I. It is all the less to be wondered at that we lack complete insight and understanding for others. Without perfect self-understanding one will never learn to truly understand others.

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