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Friedrich Hölderlin


Born
in Lauffen am Neckar, Germany
March 20, 1770

Died
June 07, 1843

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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his seminary roommates and fellow Swabians Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

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“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”
Holderlin

“But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.”
Friedrich Hölderlin

“You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.”
Friedrich Hölderlin

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