I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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

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

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for...

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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

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

A character is a completely fashioned will.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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

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

What until recently seemed to be only the apocalyptic fantasies of the Christian faith has...

What until recently seemed to be only the apocalyptic fantasies of the Christian faith has...

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all...

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all...

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.