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

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“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel · Beauty

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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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.

Anger

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Age