The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
From Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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.
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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