"It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two."
— Friedrich Schlegel

January 1, 1970

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It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system, and to have none. So the spirit must indeed resolve to combine the two. — As quoted in Hegel : Lectures on the History of Philosophy 1825-6 : Volume I, (2009) by Robert F. Brown, footnote, p. 59