"It is in fact wonderful how physics - as soon as it is concerned not with technical purposes but with general results - without knowing it gets into cosmogony, astrology, theosophy, or whatever you wish to call it, in short, into a mystic discipline of the whole." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms", 1797)
"There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms", 1797)
"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms", [Aphorism 26] 1797)
"Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Selected Ideas", 1799-1800)
"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Selected Ideas", 1799-1800)
"In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Philosophy of Life", 1828)
"The true excellence and importance of those arts and sciences which exert and display themselves in writing, may be seen, in a more general point of view, in the great influence which they have exerted on the character and fate of nations, throughout the history of the world." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern", 1841)
"The mind understands something only insofar as it absorbs it like a seed into itself, nurtures it, and lets it grow into blossom and fruit." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Ideas, Lucinde and the Fragments", 1991)
"Whatever can be done while poetry and philosophy are separated has been done and accomplished. So the time has come to unite the two." (K W Friedrich von Schlegel, "Ideas, Lucinde and the Fragments", 1991)
"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry." (Friedrich von Schlegel)
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