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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: And behold, what he had done was good.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.
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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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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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The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
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In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
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