Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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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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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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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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Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.