Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Education
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Born: d. January 12, 1829
- Died: January 12, 1829
- Occupation: Poet