Quotation by Friedrich Von Schlegel

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772–1829), German philosopher. From Idea 95 in Selected Ideas (1799-1800), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).
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