Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
NOVALISThe brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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