Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

God, Through, Free

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time, Become, Works

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

Music, Art, Poetry

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mean, Sense, Morality

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Idea, Ideas, Among

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing, Witty, Mythology

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry, Nothing, Against

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time, Wisdom, School

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

God, End, Earth

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

Become, Believes, Stops

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry, Philosophy, Morality

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Future, Philosophy

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Thinking, Kiss, Childbirth

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Reason, Genius, Spirit

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Deeply, Dig

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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Education, Religion, Humanity

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Humanity, Free

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing, Everything, Philosophy

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Science, Idea, Scientific

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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Human, Between

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Point, View, Sin

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Compassion, Genuine, Feels

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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

History, Character, Nation

The main thing is to know something and to say it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry, Third, Poetic

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Poet

Born: March 10, 1772

Died: January 12, 1829

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