Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
art omnipotence effort
What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science.
artists products
Many so-called artists are really products of nature's art.
authors days earth habit heavens saying similarity work
The most insignificant authors have at least this similarity to the Author of the Heavens and the Earth: that after a days work is done, they have a habit of saying to themselves, "And behold, what he made was good.
habit heaven kingdom novels prayer
Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of heaven on earth.
smile pain anger
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
art independent rights
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.
among men
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
artist views individuality
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
law disrespect honor
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.
poetry literature should
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
men laziness paradise
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
sacrifice artist self
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
art philosophy two
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
humility ideas religion
When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.