"Love and knowledge have one and the same goal, for both strive to overcome the separation in the elements of being and return to the point of their original unity.… To know an object means to negate the distance between it and consciousness; it means, in a certain sense, to become one with the object: cognitio nihil est aliud, quam Coitio quaedam cum suo cognobili. [Knowledge is nothing else than a kind of union with what is known.]"
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The Latin Quote is from Franciscus Patricius, Pararchia, Lib. XV: De intellectu, Nova de universis philosophia (Ferrara, 1591), fol. 31
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Ernst Cassirer
1874 – 1945
deutscher Philosoph
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