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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Philosophy

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

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

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

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

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

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Spiritual

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.

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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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More Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

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

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

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

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

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.

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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

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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

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

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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.

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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

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.

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Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

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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

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

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

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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