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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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

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 two. So it is, was, and shall be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Respect Men Man Just Because Two

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion Morality Human Difference

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Character History Criticism Mature

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Education Religion Humanity First

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nature Man Creative Itself

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Reason Contact Electrical Come Shock

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

View Point Of View Sin Point

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Words Misunderstood Original Ancient

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nature God World Degree Individual

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

God Man Free Through He Immortal

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.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Work Learn Desire More Educated Who

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

History Realization Necessary Subject

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