One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
- He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
- He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
- In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
- Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
- 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.
- 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.
- Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
- 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.
- One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
- Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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