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" Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. "
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Earth
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" Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. "
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" Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. "
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" Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. "
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" About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. "
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" A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. "
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" Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. "
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" Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. "
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" In true prose everything must be underlined. "
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" The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. "
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" Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. "
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" Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. "
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" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "
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" Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. "
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" In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. "
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" An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. "
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" Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. "
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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. "
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" A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. "
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" When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. "
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" The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. "
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" Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. "
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" Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. "
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