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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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One should have wit, but not wish to have it otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
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The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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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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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.
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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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We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.
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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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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: And behold, what he had done was good.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
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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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The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art poetry and philosophy should be united.
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