The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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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.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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