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About Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (later: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 - 12 January 1829), usually referred to as Friedrich Schlegel, was a German poet, critic and scholar. He was the younger brother of August Wilhelm Schlegel.
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“Die wahre Tugend ist Genialität.”
“Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.”
“"Everything, absolutely everything, comes from India."”
“Moralität ohne Sinn für Paradoxie ist gemein.”
“Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.”
“Die romantische Poesie ist eine progressive Universalpoesie.”
“Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.”
“Die Menge nicht zu achten, ist sittlich; sie zu ehren, ist rechtlich.”
“Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschheit erheben muss.”
“Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen.”
“Wie die Senatoren der Römer sind die wahren Künstler ein Volk von Königen. ”
“There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.”
“In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants.”
“Künstler ist ein jeder, dem es Ziel und Mitte des Daseyns ist, seinen Sinn zu bilden.”
“Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.”
“The doctrine of the transmigration of souls was indigenous to India and was brought into Greece by Pythagoras.”
“Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.”
“Nur durch die Bildung wird der Mensch, der es ganz ist überall menschlich und von Menschheit durchdrungen.”
“Nur derjenige kann ein Künstler seyn, welcher eine eigne Religion, eine originelle Ansicht des Unendlichen hat.”
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Friedrich Schlegel on Philosophy 3 quotes
“Philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.”
Friedrich Schlegel on Philology 2 quotes
“To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.”
Friedrich Schlegel on Morality 2 quotes
“Morality has always had a difficult time of it; utility and legality even begrudge the fact of its existence.”
Friedrich Schlegel on Indomania 2 quotes
“Here is the actual source of all languages, all the thoughts and poems of the human spirit; everything, everything without exception comes from India.”
Friedrich Schlegel on Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations 2 quotes
“There is no language in the world, even Greek, which has the clarity and the philosophical precision of Sanskrit. India is not only at the origin of everything, she is superior in everything, intellectually, religiously or politically and even the Greek heritage seems pale in comparison.”
Friedrich Schlegel on Education
“Every uneducated person is a caricature of themselves.”
Friedrich Schlegel on India
“Everything, absolutely everything, is of Indian origin.”
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Friedrich Schlegel on Baruch Spinoza 5 quotes
“Every philosophy of philosophy that excludes Spinoza must be spurious. [Original in German: Jede Philosophie der Philosophie, nach der Spinosa kein Philosoph ist muß verdächtig scheinen.]”
Friedrich Schlegel on Women
Friedrich Schlegel on Thucydides
“The characteristics of his method of composing history consist, first, in the interweaving of political speeches, framed in a manner at once clear and elaborate, which introduce us into the secret motives and councils by which the political events of the period were governed, enable us to survey every particular incident exactly from that point of view in which it was regarded by each of the most opposite parties, and lay open the most hidden wiles of contending statesmen, with an acumen superior to what was ever exerted by the craftiest of them all; secondly, in an almost poetical, minute, energetic, and lively representation of battles, and those other external incidents which occupy but too great a space in the history of human affairs; and lastly, in the accumulation of all those highest excellencies of style, which can be embodied in the richest, most ornamented, and most energetic prose.”
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Paul Tillich on Friedrich Schlegel
“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.”
Arvidsson on Friedrich Schlegel
“Friedrich Schlegel is one example of a thinker whose reputation has suffered unjustly. Bernal writes about him that he was a racist, ‘even if he never expressed it clearly’.... The fact is that Schlegel maintains that the human being's physique is fairly irrelevant for understanding the events of history...”
About Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (later: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 - 12 January 1829), usually referred to as Friedrich Schlegel, was a German poet, critic and scholar. He was the younger brother of August Wilhelm Schlegel.