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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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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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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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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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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
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Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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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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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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Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.
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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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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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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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Honor is the mysticism of legality
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The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.
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