If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelThink of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelA good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelIf the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel