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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#means #philosophy #rather #sake #uses

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#concise #definition #determine #formula #most

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#did #learn #moderns #must #poetry

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#author #authors #how #many #means

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#family #fully #look #mankind #minds

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#equally #existence #existences #few #leibniz

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#free #god #immortal #man #manifests

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#fragments #many #moderns #origin #their

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#morality #paradox #sense #without

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#being #believes #only #philosopher #stops






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