A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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 married life and family life in general.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
A character is a completely fashioned will.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Where no gods are, spectres rule.
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
