Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

age

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

anger

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

art

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

art

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

art

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

art

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

art

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

art

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

beauty

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

education

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

education

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

education

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

family

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

family

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

future

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

history

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

history

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

imagination

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

marriage

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

music

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

nature

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

nature

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

nature

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

poetry

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

poetry

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

poetry

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

poetry

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

poetry

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

poetry

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

poetry

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

poetry

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

poetry

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

poetry

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

poetry

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

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

politics

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

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.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

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

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

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

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

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

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

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

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

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?

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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

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

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

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

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.

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

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

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