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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.
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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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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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.
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Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.
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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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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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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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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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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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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.
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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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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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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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The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.
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If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like Goodness alive! would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.
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