Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

The historian is a prophet looking backward. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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