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“One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.”

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was a German poet known for his significant contributions to Romantic literature. His works deeply influenced the development of German literature, particularly in the realms of poetry and drama. more

“In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.”

Ifs Art Reality Dies Principles Air Talent Reflection Madness England Absolutes Profession Wit Introducing Rogues Absolute Freedom Pedants

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“Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.”

Spirit Genius Wit Sociable

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“The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.”

Men Persons God Individual Existence Teach Mankind Personality Development Organization Symmetry Great Person Great Personality

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“If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.”

Ifs Want Writing Spiritual Views Novel Psychology Point Of View Lust Sensual Analysis Torture Shy Disgusting Shocking Petty Unnatural Inconsistent Impotence Infamy

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.”

Ifs Men Writing Together Certain Novel Degrees Superfluous

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“A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.”

Men Should Able Form Education Modern Degrees Instruments Musical Ancient Educated Tunes Convenience Musical Instruments Educated Man

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“The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.”

Education Highest Liberal Education

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“The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.”

Writing Important Philosophy Sound Common Cases Common Sense Documents

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“If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.”

“Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.”

Christianity Treated Christian Life Realism Nature And Life

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