Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, … - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

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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.

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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.

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The highest good and solely useful is 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.

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