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

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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 character is a completely fashioned will.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

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...

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.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

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.

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

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

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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...

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.

It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid...

It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid...

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of...

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of...