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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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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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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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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
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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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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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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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