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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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If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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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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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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Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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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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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense especially words from the ancient languages.
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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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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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