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Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Art category:
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Artists category:
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Artists category:
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Beauty category:
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Books category:
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Chaos category:
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Communication category:
The main thing is to know something and to say it. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Consideration category:
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Contrasts category:
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Creativity category:
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Critics category:
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Education category:
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Energy category:
Virtue is reason which has become energy. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Enthusiasm category:
This luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Eroticism category:
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Excellence category:
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)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Faith category:
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Gender category:
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Gender category:
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Genius category:
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Goodness category:
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the History category:
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Humanity category:
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Ideas category:
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Immortality category:
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Innocence category:
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. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Inspiration category:
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Inspiration category:
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Intellect category:
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Masters category:
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)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Meaning category:
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Methodology category:
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Modernism category:
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Morality category:
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Mysteries category:
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Nature category:
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Philosophy category:
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Philosophy category:
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Poetry category:
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)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Religion category:
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)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Religion category:
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Religion category:
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Sacrifice category:
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Senses category:
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Shock category:
Good drama must be drastic. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Thinking category:
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Understanding category:
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense... (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Universe category:
Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Words category:
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)
Friedrich Von Schlegel - From the Writing category:
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
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