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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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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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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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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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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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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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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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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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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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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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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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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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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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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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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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 essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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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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