"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime."
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Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) was a pivotal figure in the German Romantic movement, renowned not only as a poet but also as a philosopher, critic, and literary theorist. Born in Hanover, he played a significant role in shaping Romantic thought through his exploration of language, poetry, and the nature of human experience. Schlegel's influential works, including his "Lucinde," advocate for the unity of art and life, leaving a lasting legacy on literature and philosophy that resonates even today. His vivid insights into the interplay of emotion and intellect continue to inspire scholars and creators alike.
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"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel"He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel