classical romanticism

I believe it to be fairly common that people separate the psychological world from the physical world. (I'm working on getting some sources to cite the development of this idea). I think that the tragedy of this form of perception is that it denies the basic understanding of the human existence as a physical act. Therefore, contrary to the aforementioned idea, I think that the more one understands their own psychological/spiritual existence, the closer they come to understanding the physical world around them. Some would argue that the limitations of human perception shape and distort the actual world from the world which we experience. I don't deny that, but offer the additional note that pure understanding is not the goal but the process of becoming one who seeks to understand which holds the greatest reward. It is far greater to have approached infinity and be humbled by it than to have discounted the destination as possible and grown farther from it with each moment.