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

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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.

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...

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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.

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.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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.

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

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

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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...