Friedrich Schlegel on Indomania
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“Here is the actual source of all languages, all the thoughts and poems of the human spirit; everything, everything without exception comes from India.”
“Even the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans, the idealism of reason, as it is set forth by Greek philosophers, appears, in comparison with the abundant light and vigour of Oriental idealism, like a feeble Promethean spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun—faltering and feeble, and ever ready to be extinguished.”