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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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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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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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The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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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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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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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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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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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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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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To disrespect the masses is moral to honor them, lawful.
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Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
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