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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. ↗

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. ↗

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. ↗

— 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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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. ↗

— 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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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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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. ↗