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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.
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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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
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In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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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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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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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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To disrespect the masses is moral to honor them, lawful.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious and the more education, the less religion.
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