Infinite Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Schlegel’s Romantic lens turns the infinite into a poetic horizon. In this brief set, his words echo the era’s yearning for the sublime, giving you a taste of his philosophical depth in just nine verses.

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

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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references…

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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is…

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Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without…

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Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a…

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We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man,…

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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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If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to…

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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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