Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel quotes about
habit heaven kingdom novels prayer
Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of heaven on earth.
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.
family loving-life family-love
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
compassion genuine priests
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
literature want veils
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
decorum form sensuality
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
writing men together
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
ideas church dinner
Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.
mean literature
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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.
artist goal mind
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind
gratitude men literature
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.