Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel quotes and sayings page 4 (poet). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 88 we have.
“It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.”
“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
“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?”
“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.”
“Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.”
“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.”
“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.”
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