Characteristics Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.” quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel — Download Open image

“The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.”

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The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In…

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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…

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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

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The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous…

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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.

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In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

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Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

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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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Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to…

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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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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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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene…

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Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

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God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits…

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The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant.…

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