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Expect nothing more from philosophy than a voice, language and grammar of the instinct for Godliness that lies at its origin, and, essentially, is philosophy itself.

— Friedrich Schlegel

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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.

There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.

Morality has always had a difficult time of it; utility and legality even begrudge the fact of its existence.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Athenäum (1798)

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