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“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel · Nature

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

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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.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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