Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Short Quotes
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's prime characteristic.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony is a form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Only by being cultivated does a human being … become altogether human and permeated by humanity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
To give the community of artists a particular purpose would mean … debasing the community of saints into a state.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
