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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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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I have expressed some ideas that point to the center I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
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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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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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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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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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God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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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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