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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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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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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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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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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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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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