Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
NOVALISThe highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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