Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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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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If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.

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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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