Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALISLearning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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