The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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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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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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