Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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 individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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