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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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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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Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.
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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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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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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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One should have wit, but not wish to have it otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
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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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Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.
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A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
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The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.
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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 highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.
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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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