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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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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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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Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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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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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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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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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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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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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Honor is the mysticism of legality
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.
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Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.
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