Panizza, Oskar: Der Illusionismus und Die Rettung der Persönlichkeit. Leipzig, 1895.

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        <titlePart type="main"><hi rendition="#b">Der Illusionismus</hi><lb/>
und<lb/><hi rendition="#b">Die Rettung der Persönlichkeit.</hi></titlePart><lb/>
        <titlePart type="sub"> <hi rendition="#b">Skizze einer Weltanschauung.</hi> </titlePart><lb/>
        <byline>Von<lb/><docAuthor>Oskar Panizza</docAuthor></byline><lb/>
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          <p> <hi rendition="#b">Motto:</hi> </p><lb/>
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            <quote>&#x201E;Quapropter effigiem Dei formamque quaerere imbecillitatis<lb/>
humanae reor. Quisquis est Deus, si modo est alius, et quacumque<lb/>
in parte, totus est sensus, totus visus, totus auditus, totus<lb/>
animae, totus animi, totus sui.&#x201C;<lb/></quote>
            <bibl> <hi rendition="#right"><hi rendition="#g">Plinii major</hi>., Histor. natur. II. 5.</hi><lb/>
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            <quote>&#x201E;Ich glaube, jeder Mensch lebt sein eigenes Leben und<lb/>
stirbt seinen eigenen Tod, das glaub&#x2019; ich.&#x201C;<lb/></quote>
            <bibl> <hi rendition="#right"><hi rendition="#g">Jens Peter Jacobsen</hi>.</hi><lb/>
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            <quote>&#x201E;If we say in the language of St. John and his Platonic<lb/>
and Gnostic predecessors &#x2019;In the beginning there was the<lb/><hi rendition="#g">Logos</hi>&#x2019;, we use human language. But if we know that all<lb/>
human language is metaphorical we shall never attempt to<lb/>
force these words into a narrow literal meaning. To do so<lb/>
is to create mythology. What lies behind the curtain of these<lb/>
words is, in fact, the realm of Agnosticism. But all that lies<lb/>
on this side of the curtain is our domain, that domain of<lb/>
language and <choice><sic>sience</sic><corr>science</corr></choice>, which in the chaos of phenomena has<lb/>
discovered a hidden Kosmos, or the reflex of that <hi rendition="#g">Logos</hi>.<lb/>
Call that Power the Father, or call it a Person, and you neither<lb/>
gain nor lose anything, for these words also are metaphorical<lb/>
only, and what constitutes the personal element in man or<lb/>
any other living being is as unknown to us as what constitutes<lb/>
the personal element in the author, the thinker, the speaker,<lb/>
or creator of the <hi rendition="#g">logoi</hi>. All I maintain is, that if we ever<lb/>
speak of a <hi rendition="#g">Logos</hi> and of <hi rendition="#g">logoi</hi>, and understand clearly<lb/>
what we mean by these words, we can no longer say that<lb/>
in the beginning there was protoplasm, and that the whole<lb/>
world was evolved from it by purely mechanical or external<lb/>
agencies.&#x201C;<lb/></quote>
            <bibl> <hi rendition="#right"><hi rendition="#g">Max Müller</hi>, Why I am not an<lb/>
Agnostic. &#x2013; Nineteenth Century, Dec. 1894.</hi><lb/>
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            <quote>&#x201E;Es ist etwas in der Seele, das nicht erschaffen ist und<lb/>
nicht erschaffen sein kann.&#x201C;</quote>
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            <bibl><hi rendition="#g">Meister Eckhart</hi>.<lb/></bibl>
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        <docImprint><pubPlace><hi rendition="#b">Leipzig</hi></pubPlace><hi rendition="#b">,</hi><docDate><hi rendition="#b">1895</hi></docDate><hi rendition="#b">.</hi><lb/><hi rendition="#g">Verlag von</hi><publisher><hi rendition="#g">Wilhelm Friedrich</hi></publisher>.</docImprint><lb/>
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