“The historian is a prophet looking backwards.””
Philosophical Fragments
Quotes by Friedrich von Schlegel
“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.””
“It is the enthusiasm of destruction that reveals the meaning of the divine creation. It is not but in the midst of death that the meaning of eternal life flashes forth””
“Knowing means conditioned cognition. The unknowability of the absolute is therefore a tautologous triviality.””
Friedrich von SchlegelFriedrich von Schlegel was a prominent German literary critic, philosopher, and Indologist, recognized as a key figure in the Jena Romanticism movement alongside his brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel. ...