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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel · Society

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Religion

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Nature

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Anger

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Art