Friedrich Von Schlegel Quotes
72 Friedrich Von Schlegel quotes:
"About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy."
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"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."
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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."
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"Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius."
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"Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself."
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"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself."
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"No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas."
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"Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical."
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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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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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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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"Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated."
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"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."
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"A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song."
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"How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator."
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"Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences."
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"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
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"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."
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"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy."
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
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