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Ok so what does it actually say and where is it from?
 

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Ok so what does it actually say and where is it from?

German Text

Best English translation can be found here.

Here too probably the best thing would be to to aggravate it even more: when this vexation reaches its highest point, then it will burst and disappear, and then the process of understanding can set to work immediately. We haven't gotten far enough in giving offense; but what is not yet may still come to be.

Das beste dürfte wohl auch hier sein, es immer ärger zu machen; wenn das Aergerniß die größte Höhe erreicht hat, so reißt es und verschwindet, und kann das Verstehen dann sogleich seinen Anfang nehmen. Noch sind wir nicht weit genug mit dem Anstoßgeben gekommen: aber was nicht ist kann noch werden.

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If you think about it, it fits to the Codex.

BTW:
The text is from 1800 and Schlegel has nothing to do with Nazis.
 
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Without knowing the context in which it belongs, it's still ambiguous, even in German.
I guess what he could mean is that understanding will most likely go to higher levels if "the problem" becomes unbearable. Like in a war when new technology advances much faster than in peace time. Or if someone is wasting his life and changes only when he is about to lose everything.

I could never read these 19th century German intellectuals anyway. They must have spoken complete gibberish at universities and intellectual circles. Anglosaxon literature is much more comprehensible.
 
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I guess what he could mean is that understanding will most likely go to higher levels if "the problem" becomes unbearable. Like in a war when new technology advances much faster than in peace time. Or if someone is wasting his life and changes only when he is about to lose everything.

I think he means that if people react negatively to your work, you might as well provoke them into a full-on outburst; afterwards they'll be less hot-headed and will actually be able to approach the subject rationally.
 

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Exactly like on the Codex!
You call people idiots without reading their posts to the end. After a few years there is no anger left in them and it's an almost friendly athmosphere.
Now I get it.
Schlegel was like us.
 

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To understand the above text better you must know that the Athenaeum was a prestigious magazine: link
 

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I'm actually curious as to who did this, 'cause it wasn't me.
 

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I'm actually curious as to who did this, 'cause it wasn't me.
We should put all the German staff members somewhere secure until the investigation is concluded. Some sort of camp, perhaps.
VentilatorofDoom, JarlFrank and Scrooge do not Brofist this.

Mandatory youtube video. Since we've already burnt through Leitkultur and Nationalsozialismus I'll go for traditional German folk music:

 

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