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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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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The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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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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If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
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Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.
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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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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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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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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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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Honor is the mysticism of legality
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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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One should have wit, but not wish to have it otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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