The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation. What is art?
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. Ulysses
Though men are inseparable from the Logos, yet they are separated in it; and though they encounter it daily, they are alienated from it Fragments
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade. Moby Dick
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