Quotation by Friedrich Von Schlegel

It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learn something new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor.
Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772–1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 123 in Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).
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