Friedrich Schlegel

"India is not only at the origin of everything, she is superior in everything, intellectually, religiously or politically and even the Greek heritage seems pale in comparison."

"Moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness."

"In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its prope…"

"The mind understands something only insofar as it absorbs it like a seed into itself, nurtures it, and lets it grow into blossom and fruit. Therefore scatter holy seeds into the soil of the spirit."

"Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself."

"To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology."

"Germany had no material interests and responded spiritually to India. Friedrich Schlegel, hailed as “the inventor of the Oriental Renaissance,” wrote in 1803, “Everything, yes, everything without exce…"

"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."