Honour is the mysticism of legality. - Friedrich Schlegel

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Honour is the mysticism of legality.

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About Friedrich Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (later: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 - 12 January 1829), usually referred to as Friedrich Schlegel, was a German poet, critic and scholar. He was the younger brother of August Wilhelm Schlegel.

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Alternative Names: Karl Friedrich von Schlegel Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Friedrich von Schlegel Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Schlegel Karl Wilhelm Friedrich
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Even the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans, the idealism of reason, as it is set forth by Greek philosophers, appears, in comparison with the abundant light and vigour of Oriental idealism, like a feeble Promethean spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun—faltering and feeble, and ever ready to be extinguished.

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