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Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- 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.
- The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
- The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
- 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.
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