Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel: Humanity

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was German poet, critic and scholar. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.
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“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.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Auf eine ähnliche Weise sollen in der vollkommnen Litteratur alle Bücher nur Ein Buch seyn, und in einem solchen ewig werdenden Buche wird das Evangelium der Menschheit und der Bildung offenbart werden.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 95

Books , Literature , Perfection

“Whoever hasn’t yet arrived at the clear realization that there might be a greatness existing entirely outside his own sphere and for which he might have absolutely no feeling; whoever hasn’t at least felt obscure intimations concerning the approximate location of this greatness in the geography of the human spirit: that person either has no genius in his own sphere, or else he hasn’t been educated to the level of the classic.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Critical Fragments,” § 36

Education , Feeling , Personality

“The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity’s prime characteristic.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschheit erheben muss.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 21

“Only by being cultivated does a human being … become altogether human and permeated by humanity.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nur durch die Bildung wird der Mensch, der es ganz ist überall menschlich und von Menschheit durchdrungen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 65

“In India lay the real source of all tongues, of all thoughts and utterances of the human mind. Everything - yes, everything without exception - has it origin in India."”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

and "The primary source of all intellectual development - in a word the whole human culture - is unquestionably to be found in the tradItions of the East.

quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.

“All those countless battles—those endless, and... for the greater part, useless wars, of which... fills up for so many thousand years... are but little atoms compared with the great whole of human destiny.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The Philosophy of History (1852), Lecture I.

War , Parting