Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Birthday, Men, Self

• The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  History, Important, Age

• Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Time, Age, Eras

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