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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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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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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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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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There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
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Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.
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It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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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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