Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Poet
1772-03-10
Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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 humility.
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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 prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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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 humility.
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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
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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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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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