Character Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

10 Character quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel offers ten compact thoughts on character, each tinged with his Romantic sensibility. Though brief, the lines hint at deeper philosophical currents for readers who appreciate a literary flourish.

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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

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

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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

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Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

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

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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one…

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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is…

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That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and…

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Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which…

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

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Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

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

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Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to…

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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene…

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

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

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