Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by Passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit. - Novalis

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Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by Passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit.

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About Novalis

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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Up to now our thinking was either purely mechanical - discursive - atomistic - or purely intuitive - dynamic. Perhaps now the time for union has come?
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