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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.
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The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.
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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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We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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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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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.
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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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A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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To disrespect the masses is moral to honor them, lawful.
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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.
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