Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
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.
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him
this leads to spiritual petrification.
this leads to spiritual petrification.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.