Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

German - Poet | March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

PhilosophyThanSubjectAboutLess

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

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MindWillDecideSystemNoneDeadly

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

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CompassionGenuineAlwaysSomething

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

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SciencePoemSpeakingIdeaPoetic

In true prose everything must be underlined.

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TrueEverythingMustProse

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

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EnergyBecomeVirtueReasonWhich

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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WomenGreatPoetryNeedOwnEssence

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

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LookingProphetBackwardHistorian

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

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