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

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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...

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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...

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

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