Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel