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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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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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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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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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In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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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 has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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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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We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.
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I can no longer say my love and your love they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
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