We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

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

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Everything absolute must be ostracized from the world. In the world one must live with the world.

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Whoever sees life other than as a self-destroying illusion is himself still preoccupied with life.

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

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

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Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.

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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

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