3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
