Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | women
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | wisdom
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | truth
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.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | smile
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.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | science
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.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | science
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | respect
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.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | religion
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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