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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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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 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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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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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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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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