Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes


We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.


Citations

Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich. Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments. Translated by Peter Firchow, University of Minnesota Press, 1971.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Born: March 10, 1772
  • Died: January 12, 1829
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.