Quotes by
Friedrich von Schlegel |
1772-1829 , German writer
German writer and critic, originator of many of the philosophical ideas that inspired the early German Romantic movement. Open to every new idea, he revealed a rich store of projects and theories in his provocative Aperçus and Fragmente (contributed to the Athenäum and other journals). | 23 quotes | 1,042 visits |
Quotations
| • | Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. 4 |
| • | Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself. 4 |
| • | Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. 4 |
| • | Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. 4 |
| • | Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. 3 |
| • | Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. 3 |
| • | Reason is mechanical, humor chemical, and genius organic spirit. 3 |
| • | What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men. 2 |
| • | You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality. 2 |
| • | Whatever can be done while poetry and philosophy are separated has been done and accomplished. So the time has come to unite the two. 2 |
| • | Moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. 2 |
| • | An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. 2 |
| • | It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two. 2 |
| • | A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. 2 |
| • | Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. 2 |
| • | Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. 2 |
| • | Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. 2 |
| • | Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. 2 |
| • | One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art. 2 |
| • | How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. 2 |
| • | Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. 2 |
| • | The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. 2 |
| • | Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. 2 |
