Quotation by

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlege

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

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A priest focuses on spiritual or unseen realities rather than the physical world, seeing visible things as symbols that point to deeper truths. This means their understanding of reality is based on interpreting the material world as a representation of something beyond what can be directly observed.

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