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What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel?

— Friedrich Hölderlin

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What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

The heart's wave would not foam up so beautifully and become spirit, if the ancient, mute rock, fate, did not stand opposed to it.

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania
Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

Wherein lies the danger, grows also the saving power.

He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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