If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
NOVALISA hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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