A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
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.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
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.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
In true prose everything must be underlined.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
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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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
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.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
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.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
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.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
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.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
- Friedrich Von Schlegel Quote
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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