“Each individual imagines that he can exist, live, think, and act for himself, and believes that he himself is the thinking principle of his thoughts; whereas in truth he is but a single ray of the ONE universal and necessary Thought.”

Source: The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806), p. 21

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German philosopher 1762–1814

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