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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

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

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Our bodies are molded rivers.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.