Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
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.
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.