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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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Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.
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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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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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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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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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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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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 essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.
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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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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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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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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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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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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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