Want Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

9 Want quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

All Want quotes Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel’s page

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel’s nine short thoughts treat wanting as a philosophical puzzle. He blends Romantic nuance with analytical clarity, prompting readers to pause and consider the deeper currents beneath a simple wish.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature…

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason…

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to…

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect…

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

Other authors on Want

More by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Image