Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#nonsensical #poem #poetic #probably #science

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

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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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