Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
christianity christian-life realism
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.
philosophy writing common-sense
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
education liberal-education highest
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
education men musical
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
god men organization
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.
spiritual writing views
If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
genius spirit wit
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
art reflection reality
In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.
should-have style wish
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
time age eras
Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.
beautiful nature forever
That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and therefore the highest beauty is forever vegetative; and the same is true for morality and love.
spiritual men genius
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.
men long evil
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.
education humanity firsts
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.