Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
men artist leader
An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.
decorum form sensuality
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
writing men together
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
literature want veils
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
compassion genuine priests
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
family loving-life family-love
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
knows
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
creativity heaven done
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.
father fate tragedy
God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?