Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Christianity, Christian Life, Realism

• Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Literature, Good Christian

• The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Views, Essentials, Literature

• If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Independent, Rights

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