“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Versatility of education can be found in
“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature
“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry
“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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If you want to see mankind fully,
“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.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Religion is not only a part of
“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
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To
“Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Form your life humanly, and you have
“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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