Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quote

In a perfect literature all books should be only a single book, and in such an eternally developing book, the gospel of humanity and culture will be revealed.


“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 95


In a perfect literature all books should be only a single book, and in such an eternally developing book, the gospel of humanity and culture will be...

In a perfect literature all books should be only a single book, and in such an eternally developing book, the gospel of humanity and culture will be...

In a perfect literature all books should be only a single book, and in such an eternally developing book, the gospel of humanity and culture will be...

In a perfect literature all books should be only a single book, and in such an eternally developing book, the gospel of humanity and culture will be...