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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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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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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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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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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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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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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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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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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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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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