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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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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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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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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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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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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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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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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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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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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Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.
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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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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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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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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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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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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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