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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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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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Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.
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A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
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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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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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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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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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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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God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?
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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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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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One should have wit, but not wish to have it otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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To disrespect the masses is moral to honor them, lawful.
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When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.
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