Friedrich Schlegel on Philosophy
1772–1829 Germany
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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.
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Athenäum (1798)
Philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Athenäum (1798)
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Whatever can be done while poetry and philosophy are separated has been done and accomplished. So the time has come to unite the two.
To point out historically... the progress of this restoration in the various periods of the world, constitutes the object of the "Philosophy of History."
The Philosophy of History (1852)
You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality
At the words “his philosophy, my philosophy,” one is always reminded of that line in Nathan: … “What kind of God is it who belongs to a man?”