“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
“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.” MenWantMindFirstsLongSelfStatesLastsYoungPurposeArtistValuesGoalFailingHe ManCommunicationGeniusHighestDignityPrejudiceRemainsInspiredTendenciesState Of MindRestraintSelf Restraint Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.” NeedsShouldFirstsSaidTwoSinOriginalsTendenciesLatterPrevailingOriginal SinSynthetic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.” IfsMenFirstsHumansMayDoeArtistHuman BeingsLeaderForeverParticularMediators Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.” FirstsSoulPastSpiritArtistIndividualMankindHigherOrgans Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.” FirstsAgeTimeNationsGenuineEras Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.” ThinkingFirstsLiteratureKissingPublicationChildbirthFirst KissMy First Kiss Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.” FirstsKindMomentsSpiritualImaginationFilledBlowContactGentleFriendlySparksFlashLightningHostileStimulusLuminousFrictionShatteringSociabilitySaturationSaturation Point Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.” FirstsHumanityLiteratureEducationElementsUltimateOriginals Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
