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• We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.

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  God, Men, Thinking

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• A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

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  Book, Squares, Roots

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• It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

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  Mind, Reincarnation

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• In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.

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  Writing, Past, Order

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• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

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  Peculiar, Literature, Mankind

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• Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.

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  Ideas, Church, Dinner

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• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

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  Literature, Language, Excellent

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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.

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  Art, Depth, Done

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• If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

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  Heart, Want, Mystery

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• An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

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  Artist, Men, Leader

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

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  Mean, Literature

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• Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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  Literature, Spirit, Explosions

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• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

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  Humanity, Religion, Literature

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• Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.

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  Writing, Men, Together

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• The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.

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  History, Important, Age

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• Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

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  Art, Self, Spirit

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• Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.

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  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

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  Philosophy, Would Be, Literature

  "Athenaeum Fragments" by Friedrich Schlegel, #56 (B&S), 1798.

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• Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.

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  Past, Artist, Soul

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

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  Two, Needs, Firsts

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• There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

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  Poetry, Raw Materials, Trends

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• Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Literature, Aphorism

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (A in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798) #259)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

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  Philosophy, Mean, Doe

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

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  Desire, Literature, Classic

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• When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

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  Ideas, Criticism, Able

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