It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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