Frases de Friedrich Schlegel página 3

Fuente: Aforismo 48, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (1968), p. 151

“Fragmentos del Lyceum”

“La poesía romántica es una poesía universal progresiva.”

“El ingenio es la apariencia, el flash externo de la imaginación. De ahí, su divinidad, y el carácter ingenioso de la mística.”

Fuente: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel: Progressive Universalpoesie (1798)

“El historiador es un profeta invertido.”

Fuente: Aforismo 26, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (1968), p. 151

“India is pre-eminently distinguished for the many traits of original grandeur of thought and of the wonderful remains of immediate knowledge.”

Fuente: Athenäum (1798 - 1800), I, 2, 20: Fragmente

Friedrich Schlegel: Frases en inglés

“India is not only at the origin of everything, she is superior in everything, intellectually, religiously or politically and even the Greek heritage seems pale in comparison.”

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.

“In India lay the real source of all tongues, of all thoughts and utterances of the human mind. Everything - yes, everything without exception - has it origin in India."”

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.

“All those countless battles—those endless, and... for the greater part, useless wars, of which... fills up for so many thousand years... are but little atoms compared with the great whole of human destiny.”

and "The primary source of all intellectual development - in a word the whole human culture - is unquestionably to be found in the tradItions of the East.

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.

“This perception—this comprehension—this right discernment of the great events and general results of universal history, is what might be termed a science of history; and I would have here preferred that term, were it not liable to much misconception, and might have been understood as referring more to special and learned inquiries, than the other name I have adopted...”

The Philosophy of History (1852), Lecture I.

“The most important subject, and the first problem of philosophy, is the restoration in man of the lost image of God; so far as this relates to science.
Should this restoration in the internal consciousness be fully understood, and really brought about, the object of pure philosophy is attained.”

The Philosophy of History (1852), Lecture I.

“Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.”

The Philosophy of History (1852), Author's Preface