Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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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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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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