Приписывается: Emanuel Swedenborg
«What a man loves is what he is.»
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Этого нет в трудах: Emanuel Swedenborg
A popular formula that faithfully sums up the doctrine of the ruling love (Heaven and Hell, n. 479: 'man after death is his own love'), but is not a literal sentence of Swedenborg's.
Что было сказано на самом деле
Подлинные слова: Emanuel Swedenborg
«I am aware that many who read the following pages and the Memorable Relations annexed to the chapters, will believe that they are fictions of the imagination; but I solemnly declare they are not fictions, but were truly done and seen; and that I saw them, not in any state of the mind asleep, but in a state of perfect wakefulness.»
De amore conjugiali (1768), n. 1, trad. inglesa de 1850 (reimpr. 1892). Se cita por la traducción inglesa de dominio público; original latino no cotejado.
«That heaven in its whole complex reflects a single man is an arcanum hitherto unknown in the world, but fully recognized in the heavens.»
De caelo et inferno (1758), n. 59, trad. John C. Ager. Se cita por la traducción inglesa de dominio público; original latino no cotejado.
«The whole natural world corresponds to the spiritual world, and not merely the natural world in general, but also every particular of it.»
De caelo et inferno (1758), n. 89, trad. John C. Ager. Se cita por la traducción inglesa de dominio público; original latino no cotejado.