Friedrich Schlegel quotes - page 6

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. (Friedrich Schlegel)
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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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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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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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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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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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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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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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. (Friedrich Schlegel)
If there is an invisible church, then it is of the great paradox, which is inseparable from morality, and which must be distinguished from the merely philosophical. People who are so eccentric that they are completely serious in being and becoming virtuous understand one another in everything, find one another easily, and form a silent opposition against the prevailing immorality that pretends to be morality.
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence.
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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry.
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In India lay the real source of all tongues, of all thoughts and utterances of the human mind. Everything - yes, everything without exception - has it origin in India."
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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
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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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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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When one considers the sublime disposition underlying the tmly universal educatiOn (of traditional India) ... then what IS or has been called religion in Europe seems to us to be scarcely deserving of that name. And one feels compelled to advise those who Wish to witness religion to travel to India for that purpose ....
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In India lay the real source of all tongues, of all thoughts and utterances of the human mind. Everything - yes, everything without exception - has it origin in India." and "The primary source of all intellectual development - in a word the whole human culture - is unquestionably to be found in the tradItions of the East.
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If there is an invisible church, then it is of the great paradox, which is inseparable from morality, and which must be distinguished from the merely philosophical. People who are so eccentric that they are completely serious in being and becoming virtuous understand one another in everything, find one another easily, and form a silent opposition against the prevailing immorality that pretends to be morality. A certain mysticism of expression, which joined with romantic fantasy and grammatical understanding, can be something charming and good, often serves as a symbol of their beautiful secrets. (Friedrich Schlegel)