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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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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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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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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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious and the more education, the less religion.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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