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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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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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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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Honor is the mysticism of legality
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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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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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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The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: And behold, what he had done was good.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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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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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.
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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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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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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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True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time it should seem both necessary and free in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.
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