Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quote

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.


On Philosophy: To Dorothea, in Theory as Practice (1997), p. 420


Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.