Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
- An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
- Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
- 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.
- 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.
- God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
- A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
- 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.
- 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.
- There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
- Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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- Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
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- He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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