Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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? ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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