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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

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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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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

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The historian is a prophet looking backward.

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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

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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.

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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

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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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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

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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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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

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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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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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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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