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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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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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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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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.
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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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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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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art poetry and philosophy should be united.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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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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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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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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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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To disrespect the masses is moral to honor them, lawful.
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If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like Goodness alive! would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.
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Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
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