“Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.” ThinkingShouldArtEnoughAblePoetryArtistImpossiblePoetValuableAccomplishmentPoetry IsRise Above Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.” ThinkingShouldArtEndsPhilosophyWholeFeelingsPoetryNaturalViewsCommonExamplePoetLimitsConsciousRelationPhilosophicalUnityMerePoint Of ViewBoundariesPerceiveRealmsLinksContrastOrganismsLiberal Education 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
“All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.” ThinkingMenReligionReligiousConceptsOriginalsIntuitionCharacteristicsReduction Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.” ThinkingWritingHas BeensInterestingPhilosophicalThoughtfulVery InterestingProfileInvertedAntipodes Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.” ThinkingWellsMightPoetPhilosophicalPhilosopherRivalsIngenious Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.” IfsThinkingPersonsImportantLove IsPleasureExpressionHighestImportant ThingsDevotionSensualityLove Each OtherShort TimeRevive 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
“Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.” ThinkingMenInfiniteFinite Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
