“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“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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Category: respect
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“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Category: art
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“Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
— 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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“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Category: poetry
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