Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes - Page 6

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• Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

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  Literature, Earth, Kingdoms

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• Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

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  Lying, Men, Evil Within

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• No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

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  Ideas, Isolated, No Idea

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• Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

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  Christianity, Christian Life, Realism

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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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  Skills, Vigor, Literature

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• The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

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  Excess, Spirit, Obsession

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• 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.

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  Smile, Pain, Anger

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• Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

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  Spiritual, Men, Genius

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• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

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  Wedding, Song, Happy Marriage

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• Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

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  Time, Age, Eras

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• Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

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  Witty, Character, Imagination

  "The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics" edited by Frederick C. Beiser, (p. 131), 1996.

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• Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

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  Ironic, Literature, Irony

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, (p. 151), 1968.

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• Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

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  Mean, Literature, Morality

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• In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.

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  Art, Reflection, Reality

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• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

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  Art, Philosophy, Sensual

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• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

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  Art, Real, Italian

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• Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

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  Philosophy, Home, Men

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• German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.

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  Writing, Names, Boredom

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• The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

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  Philosophy, Writing, Common Sense

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• The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

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  God, Men, Organization

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• Virtue is reason which has become energy.

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  Energy, Literature, Virtue

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (Selected Ideas (1799-1800) #23)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• In true prose everything must be underlined.

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  Literature, Prose

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• Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

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  Philosophical, Writing, Thoughtful

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• The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

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  Humanity, Needs, Characteristics

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• 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.

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  Education, Humanity, Elements

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