An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Aphorism Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Antithesis Copy Share Image
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Concise Copy Share Image
The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Communicate Copy Share Image
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Characteristics Copy Share Image
When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Consciousness Copy Share Image
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Desire Copy Share Image
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Appearance Copy Share Image
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Aphorism Copy Share Image
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Able Copy Share Image
I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel I can Copy Share Image
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Abyss Copy Share Image
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Claims Copy Share Image
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Demand Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Appearance Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Absolutes Copy Share Image
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Attractive Copy Share Image
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Infinite Copy Share Image
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Contemplating Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Able Copy Share Image
