Genius Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

9 Genius quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Schlegel’s Romantic sensibility surfaces in these short statements about brilliance, offering a quick window into his philosophical musings on the extraordinary.

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Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

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

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

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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men,…

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Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to…

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There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such…

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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once…

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As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose…

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Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has…

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The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In…

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

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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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The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous…

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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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When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better…

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

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