"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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"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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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
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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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"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."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
-Gerald R. Ford
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-Bob Kane
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
-Lewis Thomas
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