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.


“Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #64

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...