Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
mind want looks
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
philosophy would-be criticize
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
philosophy subjects
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
humanity religion
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
men genius virtue
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
heart want mystery
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
philosophy motherhood morality
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
men feelings enthusiasm
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
writing purpose divinity
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
art philosophy philosophical
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.
beautiful art poetry
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation ofthe necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
lying men evil-within
Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.
philosophy religion today
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.
education religious religion
Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.