Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

German - Poet | March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

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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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The main thing is to know something and to say it.

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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

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