Top 100 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

#1. It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

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#2. Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

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#3. Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

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

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#5. All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

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#6. All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

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

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

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

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

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

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#12. The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

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#13. There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

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#14. Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

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

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#17. Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

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#18. Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

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

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#20. The main thing is to know something and to say it.

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#21. One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

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#22. If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.

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#23. Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

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#24. Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

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

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#26. True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

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#27. 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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#28. Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

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#29. 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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#30. Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

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#31. In true prose everything must be underlined.

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

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

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#35. All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

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#36. In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

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

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

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

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#42. The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a highercaste, not ennobled by birth, however, but by deliberate self-initiation.

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#43. Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.

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#44. 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.

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#45. 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.

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#46. Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

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#47. If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

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#48. 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.

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#49. A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

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

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#51. Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

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#52. Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

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#53. 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.

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#54. Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

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

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#56. In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

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

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#58. Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

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#59. The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

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

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#61. Honor is the mysticism of legality

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

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#63. The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

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#64. The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

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#65. Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

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#66. Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

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

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#68. One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

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#69. The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

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#70. One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.

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#71. One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

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#72. You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

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#73. Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

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#74. Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.

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#75. Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

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

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#77. Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

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#78. Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

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#79. A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

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

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#81. One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

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#82. There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

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#83. Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.

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#84. Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.

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#85. It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education anddevelopment of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

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#86. 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.

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#87. Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

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#88. Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

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

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

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#91. When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

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

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

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#94. All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

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#95. 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.

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#96. Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

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#97. God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

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#98. The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

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#99. Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

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#100. In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.

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