QUOTES by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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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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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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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 humility.
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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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 to the Infinite.
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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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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
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