Thinking Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

8 Thinking quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Schlegel’s Romantic critique lands in succinct observations about the mind. In eight lines you’ll sense his intellectual depth without the heavy load.

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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…

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

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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

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Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also…

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The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion…

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Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very…

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

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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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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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