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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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 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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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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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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There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
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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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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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To disrespect the masses is moral to honor them, lawful.
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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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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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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
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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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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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