#Friedrich Schlegel

Wherever there are politics or economics no morality exists.

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It’s time to tear away the veil of Isis and reveal the mystery. Whoever can’t endure the sight of the goddess, let him flee

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There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way

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What men are among the other creatures of the earth, artists are among men.

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You’re not really supposed to understand me, but I want very much for you to listen to me.

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There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without interest in grammar. Philology

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Philosophy is still moving too much in a straight line; it’s not yet cyclical enough.

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Poetry and philosophy are, depending on one’s point of view, different spheres, different forms, or simply the component

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The poetizing philosopher, the philosophizing poet, is a prophet. A didactic poem should be and tends to become prophetic.

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The imagination is man’s faculty for perceiving divinity.

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The dull person judges all other people like people but treats them like things, and is absolutely incapable of

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Man frees himself by bringing forth God or making him visible, and this is how he becomes immortal.

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A priest is someone who lives only in the invisible world and for whom everything visible possesses only the truth of

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Irony is the clear consciousness of eternal agility, of an infinitely teeming chaos.

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The whole history of modern poetry is a running commentary on the following brief philosophical text: all art should

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Even philosophy has blossoms. That is, its thoughts; but one can never decide if one should call them witty or beautiful.

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