QUOTES by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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 concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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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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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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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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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
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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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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
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