"If you want to see mankind fully, look……" — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."
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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
- What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
- Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when…
- Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large…
- Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith,…
- Good drama must be drastic.
- Virtue is reason which has become energy.
- Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
- Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
- Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and…
- Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and…
- One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.