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It is easy to see that this problem can be solved neither in theoretical nor in practical philosophy, but only in a higher discipline, which is the link that combines them, and neither theoretical nor practical, but both at once.

— Friedrich Schelling System of Transcendental Philosophy (1800)

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

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