Friedrich Schlegel quotes - page 5

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. (Friedrich Schlegel)
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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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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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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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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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. (Friedrich Schlegel)
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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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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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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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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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. (Friedrich Schlegel)
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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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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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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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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