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

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming…

Where children are, there is the golden age…

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason…

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

Nature is a petrified magic city…

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other…

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment…

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for…

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