“Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.” ArtBeautifulFormSpiritPoetryProcessCreationPoetCriticismImpressionRealmsToneSatireWorks Of ArtRepresentationCitizenshipCritique Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.” SpiritPoetryPoetBecomingLettersAccomplished Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.” MenSpiritLyingReligionEvilEnergyPrinciplesTerribleMoralityDivisionInhumanIndivisibleEvil Within 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
“Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.” HumansDoeMightSpiritUnderstandingAttitudeClearGreatnessGeniusAreasInsightEducatedSpheresHuman Spirit Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.” SpiritGeniusWitSociable Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“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.” IfsArtWould BePoliticalSpiritValuesChristianityVirtueRightsEconomicLettersEssenceUniversalAbsolutesIndependentBotherCourageousContemptCynicismDefenceSplendorStoicEconomic Value Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.” SpiritObsessionExcessModerationNarrow Mindedness 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
“We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.” ShouldWellsHandsWould BeSpiritCasesProveAuthorityDirectMethodPossessionPeculiarGood WorkAntiquityInvokeRedeemingConcise Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.” HumansArtSelfSpiritHuman BeingsResultsCreationParticularDestructionDividedRestraintSelf DestructionSelf Restraint Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.” ReasonSpiritGeniusWitChemicals Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.” SpiritLiteratureWitExplosionsCompounds Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.” WorldSpiritEternalInfiniteIndividualityInvisibleIndividualismAbyssEternal LifePlenitude 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
