Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
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