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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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The historian is a prophet looking backward. ↗

— 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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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

— 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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