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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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I can no longer say my love and your love they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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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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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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The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art poetry and philosophy should be united.
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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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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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All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
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