You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. S...
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.