Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes - Page 7

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• God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

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  Father, Fate, Tragedy

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• In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.

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  Artist, Poetry, Here And There

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• One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

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  Art, Nature, Work

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• What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science.

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  Art, Omnipotence, Effort

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• 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?

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  Positive, Philosophy, Trying

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• The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

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  Realization, Literature, Subjects

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• Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.

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  Spiritual, Blow, Imagination

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• Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.

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  Art, Reality, Personality

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• The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

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  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

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  Law, Disrespect, Honor

  "Lucinde and the Fragments (Athenaeum Fragments, § 211)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by P. Firchow, 1991.

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• 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.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Mind, Looks, Literature

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• Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

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  Air, Numbers, People

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• The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Poetry, Tears

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• Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

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  Men, Humanity, Religion

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• Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.

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  Philosophy, Religion, Today

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Men, Literature

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• Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

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• Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

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  Philosophy, Moving, Philosophical

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• Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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  Literature, Feminine, Treated

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• Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

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  Witty, Inspiration, Long

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #37 (B&S), 1798.

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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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  Ideas, Poetic, Nonsensical

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• Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

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  Time, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

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  Art, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and therefore the highest beauty is forever vegetative; and the same is true for morality and love.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Forever

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• 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.

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  Dog, Book, Water

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