... How are we to remove this contradiction?
Beauty combines the two opposite conditions of perceiving
and thinking, and yet there is no possible mean between the
two of them. The one is made certain through experience,
the other directly through reason.
This is the precise point to which the whole question
concerning Beauty is leading; and if we succeed in solving
this question satisfactorily we have at the same time the
clue which will lead us through the whole labyrinth of
aesthetics.
Eighteenth Letter
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Friedrich Schiller
(Translated by Reginald Snell)
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