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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel [1772-1829] German

Rank: 101
Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, usually cited as Friedrich Schlegel, was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of the Jena romantics.

Poetry, Religion, Wisdom, Anger, Beauty, Brainy, Education, Family, Great, Humor, Imagination, Marriage, Nature, Positive, Smile

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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.		101
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.	Great	102
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.		103
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.	Family	104
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.	Wisdom	105
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.		106
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.	Imagination	107
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.		108
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.	Nature	109
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.		110
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.	Anger, Religion, Smile	111
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.		112
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.		113
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.	Education, Poetry	114
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.		115
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.		116
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.		117
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.		118
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.		119
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.		120
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.		121
The historian is a prophet looking backward.		122
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.	Religion	123
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.		124
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?	Positive	125
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.		126
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.	Wisdom	201
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?	Poetry	202
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.		203
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.		204
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.		205
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.		206
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.		207
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.		208
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.		209
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.		210
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.		211
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.	Humor	212
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.		213
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.	Brainy	214
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.		215
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.	Poetry	216
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.	Poetry	217
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.		218
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.		219
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.		220
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.	Poetry	221
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.		222
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.		223
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.		224
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.		225
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.	Poetry	226
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.	Poetry	301
The main thing is to know something and to say it.		302
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.		303
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.		304
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.		305
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.		306
In true prose everything must be underlined.		307
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.	Poetry	308
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.		309
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.		310
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.		311
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.		312
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.		313
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.		314
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.		315
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.		316
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.		317
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.	Poetry	318
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.	Beauty	319
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.		320
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.		321
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.		322
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.		323
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.		324
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.		325
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.	Marriage	326
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.		401
Virtue is reason which has become energy.		402
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.		403
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.		404
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.		405
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.		406
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.		407
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.		408
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?		409
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.		410

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