... It is really a question of two utterly different operations,
which in this enquiry must necessarily support each other.
Beauty, it is said, links together two conditions which are
opposed to each other and can never become one. It is
from this opposition that we must start; we must comprehend
and recognize it in its whole purity and strictness, so that
the two conditions are separated in the most definite way;
otherwise we are mixing but not uniting them. Secondly,
it is said that Beauty combines those two opposite conditions,
and thus removes the opposition. But since both conditions
remain eternally opposed to one another, they can only be
combined by cancellation.
Eighteenth Letter
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Friedrich Schiller
(Translated by Reginald Snell)
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