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“A God-intoxicated man.”

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

“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”

“Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind...”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand”

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

“Where children are, there is the golden age.”

“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.”

“Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”

“Nature is a petrified magic city.”

“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.”