Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Genius, Literature

• Virtue is reason which has become energy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  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.

• If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Independent, Rights

• 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.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Home, Men

• 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.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Italian

• 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.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Destiny, Miracle, Arbitrary

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