I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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In archaic and traditional societies, the surrounding world is conceived as a microcosm. At the limits of this closed world begins the domain of the unknown, of the formless. On this side there is ordered — because of inhabited and organized — space; on the other, outside this familiar space, there is the unknown and dangerous region of the demons, the ghosts, and the dead and foreigners — in a world, chaos or death or night. This image of an inhabited microcosm, surrounded by desert regions as a chaos or a kingdom of the dead, has survived even in highly evolved civilizations such as those of China, Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Mircea Eliade
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
Sir Thomas Browne
It is true: Man is the microcosm:
I am my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Therefore man, heaven and earth are one thing,likewise air and water. If man knows how to transmute things in the greater world.... how much more so in the microcosm, that is, in himself, if he know that the greatest treasure of a man exists within the man, and not outside him.
Gerhard Dorn
Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
Democritus
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wodehouse, P. G.
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