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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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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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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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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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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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The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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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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Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
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