Education Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

9 Education quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel’s short collection on education delves into Romantic notions of freedom and imagination. These nine thoughtful statements invite readers to consider learning as an expressive, liberating endeavor.

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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

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It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development…

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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology…

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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…

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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his…

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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough…

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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense…

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Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin…

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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 naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous…

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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

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Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

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Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to…

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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

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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…

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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better…

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One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

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