“Universality is the successive satiation of all forms and substances. Universality can attain harmony only through the conjunction of poetry and philosophy; and even the greatest, most universal works of isolated poetry and philosophy seem to lack this final synthesis. They come to a stop, still imperfect but close to the goal of harmony. The life of the Universal Spirit is an unbroken chain of inner revolutions; all individuals — that is, all original and eternal ones — live in him. He is a genuine polytheist and bears within himself all Olympus.”

– Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments