Friedrich Schlegel quotes

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. (Friedrich Schlegel)
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Friedrich Schlegel
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Friedrich Schlegel
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Friedrich Schlegel
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Friedrich Schlegel
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Friedrich Schlegel
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Friedrich Schlegel
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Friedrich Schlegel
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Friedrich Schlegel
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
Friedrich Schlegel
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. (Friedrich Schlegel)
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Friedrich Schlegel
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Friedrich Schlegel
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Friedrich Schlegel
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Friedrich Schlegel
It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.
Friedrich Schlegel
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.
Friedrich Schlegel
Honour is the mysticism of legality.
Friedrich Schlegel
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
Friedrich Schlegel
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
Friedrich Schlegel
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. (Friedrich Schlegel)
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.
Friedrich Schlegel
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
Friedrich Schlegel
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
Friedrich Schlegel
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
Friedrich Schlegel