Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. ↗

— 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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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. ↗

— 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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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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