August Wilhelm von Schlegel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Faith #Firsts #Steps
Literature is the immortality of speech.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Literature #Speech #Immortality
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Mind #Development #Consciousness
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Art #Individual #Manifest
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Art #Portraits #Portraiture
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Art #Spirit #Virtue
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Beautiful #Fashion #People
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Sunshine #Reflection #Light
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Love #Axes #Solitude

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel famous quotes

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