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Beauty is the infinite represented in the finite.

— Friedrich Schelling

Das Unendliche endlich dargestellt ist Schönheit.

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All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.

On University Studies (1803)

What is Europe really but a sterile trunk which owes everything to oriental grafts?

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music…. If architecture in general is frozen music.

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.

On University Studies (1803)

The books which are called Biblical were an obstacle to the perfection of Christianity and, in terms of truly religious content, they could not even remotely be compared with the sacred books of India, as well as many others from earlier and later times.

On University Studies (1803)

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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