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Honor is the mysticism of legality
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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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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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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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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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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The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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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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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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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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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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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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Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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