"A classical work doesn't ever have to be……" — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it."
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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96 Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when…
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Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large…
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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith,…
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Good drama must be drastic.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and…
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and…
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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