Have we, asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great unknown philosopher, have we advanced one step further on the radiant path of enlightenment, that leads to the simplicity of men? Let us wait in silence: perhaps ere long we shall be conscious of the murmur of the gods.
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About Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck was a 19th-century Belgian playwright and essayist. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality