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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 64 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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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.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Idea 68 in Selected Ideas (1799-1800), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 51 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that island are 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.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 67 in Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 63 in Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 63 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 61 in Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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