40 quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“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

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“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

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“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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

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“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

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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

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“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

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“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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

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“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

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“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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

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“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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

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“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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