Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
art philosophy philosophical
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learnsomething new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor.
writing past order
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
communication men artist
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.
views ideas way
I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.
time philosophy philosophical
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
philosophy moving philosophical
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.
philosophical thinking rivals
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
religious men thinking
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.
peculiar literature mankind
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
men world existence
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
mind reincarnation
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
literature prose
In true prose everything must be underlined.
education art world
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
want should
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.