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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Quote from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.
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Quote from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel’s Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.