“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Man hat nur so viel Moral, als man Philosophie und Poesie hat.
“Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #62

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German poet, critic and scholar 1772–1829

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