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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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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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The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.
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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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Honor is the mysticism of legality
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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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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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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 are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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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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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
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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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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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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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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I can no longer say my love and your love they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.
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