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The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
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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Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
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I have expressed some ideas that point to the center I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.
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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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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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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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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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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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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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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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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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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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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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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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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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