Top 88 Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

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.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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.