Best quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Men
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‟ All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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‟ There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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‟ Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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‟ What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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‟ As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel