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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
Written by Karl Wilhelm 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?
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Written by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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