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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.

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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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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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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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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

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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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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Poet

Born: March 10th, 1772

Died: January 12th, 1829

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