“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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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
