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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 few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
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The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.
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German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.
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Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
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When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.
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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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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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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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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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One should have wit, but not wish to have it otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
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Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
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Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?
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A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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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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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
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