There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
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Section 10.Sir Thomas Browne
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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
I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
I grieve for you
You leave me
So hard to move on
Still loving what's gone
They say life carries on
Carries on and on and on and on...Peter Gabriel
Browne, Sir Thomas
Browne, Sylvia
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