Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
should-have criticism stomach
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
witty character imagination
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
art revenge mean
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
literature prophet historian
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
genius spirit reason
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
art philosophy sensual
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
men produce immortal
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
men creative literature
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
philosophy religion literature
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
mean literature morality
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
ironic literature irony
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
struggle men soldier
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
art enthusiasm instinct
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
invisible priests allegory
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.