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 More Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Quotes From Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel irony ironic literature Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel morality literature mean Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel creative literature men Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel sensual philosophy art Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel genius spirit reason The historian is a prophet looking backward. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel historian prophet literature Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel revenge mean art Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel imagination witty character A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel stomach criticism should-have A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel happy-marriage wedding song Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel epic-poems epic philosophy Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel treated feminine literature Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel individuality spirit world Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel enthusiasm feelings men 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. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel evil men long One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel morality motherhood philosophy If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel mystery want heart 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 elements humanity education Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel genius literature men About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel subjects literature philosophy
