"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."
— Friedrich Schlegel

January 1, 1970

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As translated in The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics (1996) edited by Frederick C. Beiser, p. 131