"Wer noch nicht bis zur klaren Einsicht gekommen ist, dass es eine Grösse noch ganz ausserhalb seiner eigenen Sphäre geben könne, für die ihm der Sinn durchaus fehle; wer nicht wenigstens dunkle Vermuthungen hat, nach welcher Weltgegend des menschlichen Geistes hin diese Grösse ungefähr gelegen seyn möge: der ist in seiner eignen Sphäre entweder ohne Genie, oder noch nicht bis zum Klassischen gebildet."
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Kritische Fragmente, Prosaischen Jugendschriften (1882), Band 2, S. 187, § 36
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Friedrich Schlegel
1772 – 1829
deutscher Philosoph und Dichter
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