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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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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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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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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense especially words from the ancient languages.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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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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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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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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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
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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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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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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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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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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
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