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You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.
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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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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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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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
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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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We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.
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There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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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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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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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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The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like Goodness alive! would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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