Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
honor legality mysticism
Honor is the mysticism of legality
learning literature caricatures
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
essence needs poetry-is
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
literature politics ethics
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
literature spirit explosions
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
agility irony chaos
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
gratitude men literature
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
mean literature
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
two-extremes literature extremes
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
beauty sublime literature
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
literature language excellent
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
respect men artist
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.
artist goal mind
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind
ideas church dinner
Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.