We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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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...

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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 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.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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

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

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.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

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

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

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 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.

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...