Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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

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

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.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Your library is your paradise.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

The only paradise is paradise lost.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.