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.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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