Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Epic Copy Share Image
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Disrespect Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Aphorism Copy Share Image
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Happy marriage Copy Share Image
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Castration Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Classical Copy Share Image
It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Career Copy Share Image
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius Copy Share Image
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ancient Copy Share Image
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Beautiful Copy Share Image
True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ancient Copy Share Image
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophy Copy Share Image
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Anger Copy Share Image
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophical Copy Share Image
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ancient Copy Share Image
Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Historical Copy Share Image
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Aphorism Copy Share Image
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
