Time Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

9 Time quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel frames time as a poetic continuum, each line a concise, lyrical meditation on history and imagination. Nine short statements give a compact taste of his Romantic philosophy.

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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

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Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

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Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction…

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most…

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Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to…

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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher…

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Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about…

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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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