Friedrich Schlegel quotes

Friedrich Schlegel was a German poet, philosopher, and literary critic, considered one of the founders of German Romanticism. His work explored the relationship between language, meaning, and individual creativity. He played a crucial role in shaping modern ideas about literature and aesthetics. Here are 146 of his quotes:

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. (Friedrich Schlegel)
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. View quote
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The historian is a prophet looking backward. View quote
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. View quote
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Virtue is reason which has become energy. View quote
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. View quote
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. View quote
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. View quote
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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. View quote
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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. View quote
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. (Friedrich Schlegel)
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. View quote
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. View quote
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men. View quote
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. View quote
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It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism. View quote
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To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. View quote
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Honour is the mysticism of legality. View quote
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Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. View quote
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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts. View quote
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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. (Friedrich Schlegel)
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation. View quote
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. View quote
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. View quote
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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. View quote
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Friedrich Schlegel

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Occupation: German Poet
Born: March 10, 1772
Died: January 12, 1829
Quotes count: 146
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