Each planet has its own sun. … [I]t really is another sun on Uranus … The relation of the Sun to the Earth is therefore at the same time a relation of the Earth to itself, or to its own nature … Hence each planet has in its sun the mirror of its own nature.

In the object which he contemplates … man becomes acquainted with himself.

Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time conscious of our own nature[.]

[T]he object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject's own … objective nature.