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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

   

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

   

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

   

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

   

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

   

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

   

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.

   

In true prose everything must be underlined.

   

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.

   

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

   

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

   

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

   

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

   

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

   

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

   

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