Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 31)

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

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

"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, Poet

"The main thing is to know something and to say it"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"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, Poet

"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"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"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"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, Poet

"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, Poet

"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, Poet

"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"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, Poet

"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, Poet

"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, Poet

"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, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"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, Poet

"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"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, Poet

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

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