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All Quotes by author - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. "

" A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. "

" A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. "

" An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. "

" A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. "

" Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. "

" 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. "

" Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. "

" Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. "

" 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. "

" In true prose everything must be underlined. "

" Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. "

" Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. "

" Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. "

" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

" Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. "

" Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. "

" Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. "

" Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. "

" The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. "

" The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. "

" There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age. "

" When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. "

" Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. "

" Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. "

" Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. "

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