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Men Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
- Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of…
- Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
- Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
- As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
- Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
- Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
- Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
- Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
- All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by…
- There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most…
- Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and…
- What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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