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History Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

9 History quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Schlegel’s Romantic lens turns the study of past into a vivid tableau of ideas. Though modest in number, these nine excerpts capture his penchant for philosophical depth, offering readers a compact but rich encounter with his thoughts on how we interpret time.

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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

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The historian is a prophet looking backward.

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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

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The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

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The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a…

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The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional…

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The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence…

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The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and…

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The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate…

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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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