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Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.
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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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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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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