Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Only by being cultivated does a human being … become altogether human and permeated by humanity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel