“Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.” MenLeftExistenceDivineParadiseLazinessFragmentsGodlike Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.” ThinkingMenFeelsFirstsHumansGodReligionUniverseDivineHe ManProductsDepthReasonableReasonable Man Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.” ArtRealFormVirtueModernStyleDivinePoetGeniusOrdinaryBreathsAncientDetailsBreatheMoodIronyItalianInteriorsSurveysExteriorTranscendentalEntiretyHistrionic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.” MenMatterWould BeDivinePersonalityEternalHighestOriginalsIndividualityPursueIndividualismVocationEgoism Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.” HumansReasonFormLife IsSpiritNaturalDivineSpringDivinityNo Reason Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.” ArtDoneEnoughFormLiteratureDivineDepthHeight Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.” IfsHumansLyingReligionLiteratureDifferencesDivineMoralityDivision Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.” IdeasDivineInfiniteOriginalsLively Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.” MenFeelingsSpiritDivineElementsChaosEnthusiasmEthicalLuminousThoughts And Feelings Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
