In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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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.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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