The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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