Friedrich Von Schlegel Quotes


72 quotes:

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
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"Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated."
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"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."
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"Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit."
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"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation."
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"Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist."
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"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher."
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"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man."
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"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."
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"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."
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"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?"
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"The main thing is to know something and to say it."
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"The historian is a prophet looking backward."
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"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."
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"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
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