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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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 highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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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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Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
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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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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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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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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is 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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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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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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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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