False universality is what rubs the edges off all individual kinds of culture and takes as its basis the mediocre average. With true universality, on the other hand, art, for example, would become even more artificial than it is in its pure state, poetry would become more poetical, criticism more critical, history more historical, and so on. This universality can come into being when the simple light of religion and morality touches a chaos of combinative wit and fertilizes it. Then the most sublime poetry and philosophy burst into flower by themselves.
Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas
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Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen: A Romance
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
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art cannot be modern. art is primordially eternal.
// egon schiele
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire, Epître à l'auteur du livre des Trois imposteurs
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1 John 5:11 (ESV) -
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
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This state of 'no-mind' exists, as it were, on a knife-edge between the carelessness of the average sensual man and the strained over-eagerness of the zealot for salvation. To achieve it, one must walk delicately and, to maintain it, must learn to combine the most intense alertness with a tranquil and self-denying passivity, the most indomitable determination with a perfect submission to the leadings of the spirit.
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
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