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Friedrich Schlegel
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“Die romantische Poesie ist eine progressive Universalpoesie.”
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Recorded in: Progressive Universalpoesie (1798); in the German language, particularly in the Romantic schools, "Poesie" means both poetry as genre and faculty and the source of creativity to form poetry.
“Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.”
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Recorded in: Aphorism 48, as translated in Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (1968), p. 151
“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
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Recorded in: Aphorism 26, as translated in Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (1968), p. 151
“Honour is the mysticism of legality.”
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Recorded in: Aphorism 77, of Ideas as translated in The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics (1996) edited by Frederick C. Beiser, p. 131
“The study of Indian Literature requires to be embraced by such students and patrons as in the 15th and 16th centuries suddenly kindled in Italy and Germany an ardent appreciation of the beauty of Classical learning, and in so short a time invested it with such prevailing importance that the form of all wisdom and science, and almost of the world itself, was changed and renovated by the influence of that reawakened knowledge.”
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“It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Divine Madness : On Interpreting Literature, Music, and The Visual Arts Ironically (2002) by Lars Elleström, p. 50
“In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics.”
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“In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants.”
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Recorded in: Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #67
“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.”
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Recorded in: Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #117
“Die Romane sind die sokratischen Dialoge unserer Zeit. In diese liberale Form hat sich die Lebensweisheit vor der Schulweisheit geflüchtet.”
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Recorded in: Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Critical Fragments,” § 26
“Whoever hasn’t yet arrived at the clear realization that there might be a greatness existing entirely outside his own sphere and for which he might have absolutely no feeling; whoever hasn’t at least felt obscure intimations concerning the approximate location of this greatness in the geography of the human spirit: that person either has no genius in his own sphere, or else he hasn’t been educated to the level of the classic.”
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Recorded in: Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Critical Fragments,” § 36
“Bei den Ausdrücken, „Seine Philosophie”, „Meine Philosophie”, erinnert man sich immer an die Worte im Nathan: „Wem eignet Gott? Was ist das für ein Gott, der einem Menschen eignet?”
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Recorded in: Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 99, reference is to Lessing, Nathan der Weise
“Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.”
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Recorded in: Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 116
“To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.”
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Recorded in: Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 147
“Die Menge nicht zu achten, ist sittlich; sie zu ehren, ist rechtlich.”
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Recorded in: Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Athenaeum Fragments” § 211
“Du sollst dir kein Ideal machen, weder eines Engels im Himmel, noch eines Helden aus einem Gedicht oder Roman, noch eines selbstgeträumten oder fantasirten; sondern du sollst einen Mann lieben, wie er ist.”
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Recorded in: Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Athenaeum Fragments,” § 364
“There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.”
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Recorded in: Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 428
“The mind understands something only insofar as it absorbs it like a seed into itself, nurtures it, and lets it grow into blossom and fruit. Therefore scatter holy seeds into the soil of the spirit.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 5
“Nur derjenige kann ein Künstler seyn, welcher eine eigne Religion, eine originelle Ansicht des Unendlichen hat.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #13
“Künstler ist ein jeder, dem es Ziel und Mitte des Daseyns ist, seinen Sinn zu bilden.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) # 20
“Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschheit erheben muss.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 21
“Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #23
“Die wahre Tugend ist Genialität.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #36
“Die Pflicht der Kantianer verhält sich zu dem Gebot der Ehre, der Stimme des Berufs und der Gottheit in uns, wie die getrocknete Pflanze zur frischen Blume am lebenden Stamme.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 39
“Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) # 43
“Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 44
“Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 45
“Dem Bunde der Künstler einen bestimmten Zweck geben, das heisst ein dürftiges Institut an die Stelle des ewigen Vereins setzen; das heisst die Gemeinde der Heiligen zum Staat erniedrigen.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 49
“Der Künstler darf eben so wenig herrschen als dienen wollen. 15 Er kann nur bilden, nichts als bilden, für den Staat also nur das thun, dass er Herrscher und Diener bilde, dass er Politiker und Oekonomen zu Künstlern erhebe.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 54
“Grade die Individualität ist das Ursprüngliche und Ewige im Menschen; an der Personalität ist so viel nicht gelegen. Die Bildung und Entwicklung dieser Individualität als höchsten Beruf zu treiben, wäre ein göttlicher Egoismus.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) # 60
“Man hat nur so viel Moral, als man Philosophie und Poesie hat.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #62
“Durch die Künstler wird die Menschheit ein Individuum, indem sie Vor welt und Nachwelt in der Gegenwart verknüpfen. Sie sind das höhere Seelenorgan, wo die Lebensgeister der ganzen 15 äussern Menschheit zusammentreffen und in welchem die innere zunächst wirkt.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #64 [cf. Heidegger]
“Nur durch die Bildung wird der Mensch, der es ganz ist überall menschlich und von Menschheit durchdrungen.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 65
“Moralität ohne Sinn für Paradoxie ist gemein.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 76
“Man lebt nur insofern man nach seinen eignen Ideen lebt. Die Grundsätze sind nur Mittel, der Beruf ist Zweck an sich.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 82
“Du wolltest die Philosophie zerstören, und die Poesie, um Raum zu gewinnen für die Religion und Moral, die du verkanntest: aber du hast nichts zerstören können als dich selber.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #90
“Auf eine ähnliche Weise sollen in der vollkommnen Litteratur alle Bücher nur Ein Buch seyn, und in einem solchen ewig werdenden Buche wird das Evangelium der Menschheit und der Bildung offenbart werden.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 95
“Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #98
“Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #101
“Nicht in die politische Welt verschleudere du Glauben und Liebe, aber in der göttlichen Welt der Wissenschaft und der Kunst opfre dein Innerstes in den heiligen Feuerstrom ewiger Bildung.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 106
“Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 108
“Deute den lieblichen Schein und mache Ernst aus dem Spiel, so wirst du das Centrum fassen und die verehrte Kunst in höherm Lichte wieder finden.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 109
“Wie die Senatoren der Römer sind die wahren Künstler ein Volk von Königen.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 114
“Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 130
“Worauf bin ich stolz und darf ich stolz seyn als Künstler?Auf den Entschluss, der mich auf ewig von (29) allem Gemeinen absonderte und isolirte.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 136
“Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind.”
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Recorded in: Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 139
“Selbst in den äusserlichen Gebräuchen sollte sich die Lebensart der Künstler von der Lebensart der übrigen Menschen durchaus unterscheiden. Sie sind Braminen, eine höhere Kaste, aber nicht durch Geburt sondern durch freye Selbsteinweihung geadelt.”
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Recorded in: Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) # 146
“Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.”
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Recorded in: On Philosophy: To Dorothea,” in Theory as Practice (1997), p. 420
“Expect nothing more from philosophy than a voice, language and grammar of the instinct for Godliness that lies at its origin, and, essentially, is philosophy itself.”
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Recorded in: On Philosophy: To Dorothea,” in Theory as Practice (1997), p. 421
“When one considers the sublime disposition underlying the tmly universal educatiOn (of traditional India) ... then what IS or has been called religion in Europe seems to us to be scarcely deserving of that name. And one feels compelled to advise those who Wish to witness religion to travel to India for that purpose ....”
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Recorded in: quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.