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Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.

Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Henri-Frédéric Amiel: life dates 1821 to 1881. Wikidata Q123916, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123916 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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