Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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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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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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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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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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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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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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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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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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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.