Ocupation: Poet
Life: d. January 12, 1829
Birthday: d. January 12
Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
topic: Ideas, Church, Dinner, Leipzig