Famous Quotes

"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures."

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• "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."

• "Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."

• "Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do."

• "Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation."

• "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."