Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  History, Important, Age

• Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Past, Artist, Soul

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

• The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  God, Men, Organization

• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Peculiar, Literature, Mankind

• 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

  Education, Depth, Literature

• 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

  Mind, Looks, Literature

• Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Writing, Divinity, Tablets

  "Theory as Practice (On Philosophy: To Dorothea)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, 1997.

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