
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel quotes
Deutsch Poet March 10, 1772 – January 12, 1829
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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