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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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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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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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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
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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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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
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I can no longer say my love and your love they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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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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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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Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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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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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 essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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