Friedrich Schlegel and literature

Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) was a German philosopher. The rest of this post is some quotes from Schlegel.

1. "In a perfect literature all books should be only a single book and in such an eternally developing book, the gospel of humanity and culture will be revealed." (Lucinde and the Fragments, 1971 posthumous)

2. "Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation." (Lucinde and the Fragments, 1971 posthumous)

3. "Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy." (Athenaeum Fragments, 1798)

4. "A perfect project should simultaneously be entirely subjective and entirely objective." (Athenaeum Fragments, 1798)