Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel quotes about
definitions classification
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
love-is thinking expression
The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.
criticism would-be literature
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.
society mosaics caricatures
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
plato philosophy plato-s
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
witty inspiration long
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
invisible priests allegory
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
ironic literature irony
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
learning literature caricatures
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
poetry literature should
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
time philosophy philosophical
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
nature art work
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.
god men thinking
We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion...
religious men thinking
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.