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A character is a completely fashioned will.

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All heavenly messengers must be mathematicians.

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Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

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What seasoning is to food, paradox is to problem.

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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

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The idea of mathematics is the idea of science in general.

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Hypotheses are nets; only he will catch who casts his net.

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Our life is no Dream, but it may and will perhaps become one.

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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth.

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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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Was not America discovered through Hypothesis. Long live Hypothesis!

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

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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

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The spirit of Poesy is the morning light, which makes the Statue of Memnon sound.

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The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

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Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe.

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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

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All Mathematics is, properly speaking, an equation on a great scale for the other sciences.

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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

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Philosophy … bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by Passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit.

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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

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Theories are like fishing: it is only by casting into unknown waters that you may catch something.

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