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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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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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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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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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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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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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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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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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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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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.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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