"There are writers in Germany who drink the……" — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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96 Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when…
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Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large…
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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith,…
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Good drama must be drastic.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and…
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and…
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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