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Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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Die Pflicht der Kantianer verhält sich zu dem Gebot der Ehre, der Stimme des Berufs und der Gottheit in uns, wie die getrocknete Pflanze zur frischen Blume am lebenden Stamme.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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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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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
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Die wahre Tugend ist Genialität.
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Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
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Honour is the mysticism of legality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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Die Menge nicht zu achten, ist sittlich; sie zu ehren, ist rechtlich.
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Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel