"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.“
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race."
-Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken."
-Lemuel K. Washburn
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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
-Vince Neil
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"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."
-Sydney Schanberg
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"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand."
-Frederick II
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
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