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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.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.

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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.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

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The main thing is to know something and to say it.

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The historian is a prophet looking backward.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

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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.

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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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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

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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.

By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel