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."

"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."

"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."

"When one considers the sublime disposition underlying the tmly universal educatiOn ... then what IS or has been called religion in Europe seems to us to be scarcely deserving of that name. And one fee…"

"Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature."

"Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. F…"