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"Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated."
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"Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences."
"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."
"The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly."
"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."
"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."
"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."
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