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

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

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

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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

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

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.

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...

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.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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...

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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

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

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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.

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.