Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschh… - Friedrich Schlegel

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Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschheit erheben muss.

Friedrich Schlegel

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (later: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 - 12 January 1829), usually referred to as Friedrich Schlegel, was a German poet, critic and scholar. He was the younger brother of August Wilhelm Schlegel.

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Alternative Names: Karl Friedrich von Schlegel • Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel • Friedrich von Schlegel • Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Schlegel • Karl Wilhelm Friedrich

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An artist is someone who carries his center within himself. Whoever lacks such a center has to choose some particular leader and mediator outside of himself.

The Satan of the Italian and English poets may be poetic; but the German Satan is satanic; and thus one could say that Satan is a German invention.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschheit erheben muss. - Friedrich Schlegel

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