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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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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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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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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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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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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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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.
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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art poetry and philosophy should be united.
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Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.
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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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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious and the more education, the less religion.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
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