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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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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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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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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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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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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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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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True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time it should seem both necessary and free in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.
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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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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense especially words from the ancient languages.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
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The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art poetry and philosophy should be united.
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