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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Follow your own star!
From a little spark may burst a flame.
He listens well who takes notes.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
I love to doubt as well as know.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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Adam Weishaupt
Profession
Clergyman
BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
Country
Germany
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