Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALISThere is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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The 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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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