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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Inspirational Quotes (106)

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You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious and the more education, the less religion.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
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Honor is the mysticism of legality
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
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Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.
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In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.
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The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.
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