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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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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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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 subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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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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