Talk:Friedrich Schlegel

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He said that, " There is no language in the world, even Greek, which has the clarity and the philosophical precision of Sanskrit," adding that: " 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." He wrote to his friend and comrade, the poet Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853): "Here is the actual source of all languages, all the thoughts and poems of the human spirit; everything, everything without exception comes from India." "The divine origin of man, as taught by Vedanta, is continually inculcated, to stimulate his efforts to return, to animate him in the struggle, and incite him to consider a reunion and reincorporation with Divinity as the one primary object of every action and reaction. Even the loftiest philosophy of the European, the idealism of reason as it is set forth by the Greek philosophers, appears in comparison with the abundant light and vigor of Oriental idealism like a feeble Promethean spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun, faltering and feeble and ever ready to be extinguished." " Everything without exception is of Indian origin.." "whether directly or indirectly, all nations are originally nothing but Indian colonies." "In India lay the real source of all tongues, of all thoughts and utterances of the human mind. Everything - yes, everything without exception - has it origin in India." and "The primary source of all intellectual development - in a word the whole human culture - is unquestionably to be found in the traditions of the East." When one considers the sublime disposition underlying the truly universal education (of traditional India)...then what is or has been called religion in Europe seems to us to be scarcely deserving of that name. Friedrich Schlegel "was convinced that all culture and religion possessed an Indian origin and declared that Egyptian civilisation was the work of Indian missionaries". Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829)