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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In true prose everything must be underlined.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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?
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Good drama must be drastic.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him this leads to spiritual petrification. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Honor is the mysticism of legality
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel