“Only if the sublime is married to the beautiful and our sensitivity to both has been shaped in equal measure, are we complete citizens of nature, without on that account being its slaves, and without squandering our citizenship in the intelligible world.”

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(NA XX, 53/E 84) “On the Art of Tragedy” [“Über die tragische Kunst”], published in 1792

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