Inspiring Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel - Page 2

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

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

"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"

"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?"

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

"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm"

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

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss"

"Virtue is reason which has become energy"

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

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

"Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated"

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

"Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit"

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

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

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