Closing lines of the preface.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
“Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.”
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
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XI.
Outline of the Doctrine of Knowledge (1810)
Context: There is but One Principle that proceeds from God; and thus, in consequence of the unity of the Power, it is possible for each Individual to schematise his World of Sense in accordance with the law of that original harmony; — and every Individual, under the condition of being found on the way towards the recognition of the Imperative, must so schematise it. I might say: — Every Individual can and must, under the given condition, construct the True World of Sense, — for this indeed has beyond the universal and formal laws above deduced, no other Truth and Reality than this universal harmony.
Arthur Waley
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Source: Translations, The Tale of Genji (1925–1933), Ch. 25: 'The Glow-Worm'
Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 25
Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...
e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osa
com'alma razional sanza ragione.
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter XVI (tr. Mark Musa)