The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NOVALISThe Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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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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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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