All Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind
Artist
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Called
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Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability…
Arrives
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Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together…
Air
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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts…
Arbitrariness
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Good drama must be drastic.
Drama
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Become Energy
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Dignified
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Divine
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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.
Called
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of…
Demand
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Inspirational
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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
Heart
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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
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Complete
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Begin
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
Inspirational
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Aphorism
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Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
Across
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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?
Degree
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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…
Become Organically
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Essence
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One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
Art
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All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
All
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Center
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