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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.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

A complete need should not exist ... love, life in common with loved ones?

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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.

Man is a sun, his senses are the planets.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Humanity is a comic role.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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.

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

To philosophize means to make vivid.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

The process of history is combustion.

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.

mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects.

Everything at a distance turns into
poetry; distant mountains, distant
people, distant events; all become
Romantic.

The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.

Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

Character is a perfectly educated will.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Our body is a moulded river

Where are we really going? Always home.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Our bodies are molded rivers.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Apparently, we go forward.

Flight from the communal spirit is death!

Every individual is the center of a system of emanation.

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide.

Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

Character is perfectly educated will.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.

You are alone with everything you love.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking
being awake
consciousness.

We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Everything is seed.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

Longing for Death
Down into the womb of the earth,
Out of the kingdom of light,
Anger, pain, and a savage blow
Signal the happy departure.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night's beloved in this earthly labour of the day.