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

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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.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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

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

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...

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance...

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance...

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in...

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in...

Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age (Solomon...

Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age (Solomon...

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement. Of course He could have...

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement. Of course He could have...