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

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Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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

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

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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...

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...

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

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.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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

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