Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Quotes From Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel engagementinspirationwitty In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel very-goodidealspoetry Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel tabletsdivinitywriting Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel poetrybeautifulart What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel omnipotenceeffortart Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel todayphilosophyreligion The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel philosophicalphilosophyart Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel poetrymenchildren Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel philosophicalpoetryphilosophy The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel tearspoetryphilosophy Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel religiouseducationreligion There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel raw-materialstrendspoetry In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel here-and-therepoetryartist Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel philosophicalselfphilosophy The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel beautifultwohistory In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel becomingpoetryletters It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learnsomething new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel philosophicalphilosophyart 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 depthliteratureeducation The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel rhetoricalpoeticphilosophical The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel subjectsrealizationliterature
