Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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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“Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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?” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Plato’s philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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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“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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