| First of all, it is a negating of the sensible world and a going into the supersensible, a seeking of the spirit without the body. |
| We feel in these dark Cimmerian limits his wrestle to pass over to the supersensible by thought. |
| For Plato, the things of this world are merely shadowy copies of the supersensible ideas. |
| That there is such a supersensible substance, and that the human mind has such hitherto unknown powers, is not easy to admit. |
| But if our wisdom includes the supersensible life in the background, we perceive the one fructifying the other, the one enclosed within the other. |
| They are supersensible, as is the soul, because they are born purely of emotion. |
