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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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In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
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We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.
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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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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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I can no longer say my love and your love they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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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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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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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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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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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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