Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel quotes about
artists products
Many so-called artists are really products of nature's art.
authors days earth habit heavens saying similarity work
The most insignificant authors have at least this similarity to the Author of the Heavens and the Earth: that after a days work is done, they have a habit of saying to themselves, "And behold, what he made was good.
compassion genuine priests
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
decorum form sensuality
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
beauty sublime literature
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
agility irony chaos
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
genius spirit reason
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
positive philosophy trying
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?
poetry letters becoming
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
art independent rights
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.
genius spirit wit
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
christianity christian-life realism
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.
peculiar literature mankind
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
ridiculous purity genre
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.