The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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