Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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• The main thing is to know something and to say it.

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  Knows

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• Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

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  Writing, Divinity, Tablets

  "Theory as Practice (On Philosophy: To Dorothea)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, 1997.

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• Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

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  Humility, Serenity, Veils

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• Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

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  Men, Laziness, Paradise

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• About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Literature, Subjects

  "Athenaeum Fragments" (1798) by Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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  Literature, Politics, Ethics

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

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• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Religion

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• Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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  Essence, Needs, Poetry Is

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• True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

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  Destiny, Miracle, Arbitrary

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• Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Religion, Moral

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• Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

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  Ideas, Infinite, Divine

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• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

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  Literature, Prophet, Historian

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• A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

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  Family, Loving Life, Family Love

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• Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

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  Men, Long, Evil

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798) #31)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

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  Learning, Literature, Caricatures

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

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  Education, Men, Expression

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• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

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  Agility, Irony, Chaos

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• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

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  Genius, Spirit, Reason

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #366, 1798.

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• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

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  Literature, Two Extremes, Extremes

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• An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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  Artist, Goal, Mind

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• 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.

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  Individuality, World, Spirit

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• Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

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  Beauty, Sublime, Literature

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• Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

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  Art, Enthusiasm, Instinct

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• All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

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  Fall, Order, Way

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• The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.

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  Beautiful, Silly, Essence

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