Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
NOVALISThe 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 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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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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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