Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
NOVALISOne 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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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