A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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