No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Quotes From Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The main thing is to know something and to say it. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel knows Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel immortal produce men A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel family-love loving-life family 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. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel respect artist men Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel philosophical philosophy art The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel genuine priests compassion Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel poetry-is essence needs An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel artist goal mind Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel veils literature want Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel caricatures learning literature Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel paradise laziness men You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel poetry philosophy order How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel literature mean 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. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel gratitude literature men Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel infinity literature religion Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel poetry literature should Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel fragments literature Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel literature would-be philosophy There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel historical self knows A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel classification definitions
