Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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• There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

  

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• I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

  

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• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

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• I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

  

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• I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

  

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

  

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• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

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• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

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• The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

  

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• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

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• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

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• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

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• Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

  

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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

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• Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

  

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• It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

  

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• Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what's coming next and don't assume they've got the winning formula forever.

  

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• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

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• If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

  

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  • Man
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• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Great
  • Man
  • Gratitude