Adam Müller
Adam Heinrich Müller (30 June 1779 – 17 January 1829) was a German-Austrian conservative philosopher, literary critic, and political economist, working within the romantic tradition.
Quotes
[edit]- I too have often dreamed of a union of that greater nation to which we belong, as a branch belongs to the trunk, expecting revolutions, heroes, and various changes in the sentiments of nations, which should come and favor the dream. The great federalism of European peoples, which will one day come, as surely as we live, will also bear German colors; for everything great, profound, and eternal in all European institutions is German – that is the certainty that has remained to me among all those hopes. Who can still separate the German element out of Europe?
- Von den Hauptgebrechen der heutigen Staaten und von den verschiedenen Curmethoden. in: Ueber König Friedrich II und die Natur, Würde und Bestimmung der Preussischen Monarchie, Second Lecture, published by J. D. Sander, Berlin 1810, p. 58.
- Man is endowed with a thousandfold desires and infinite longings, and thus has been sent into a world that would be rich enough to grant even more than he can demand. Every glow of the heart finds its shadow, every thirst its wave, every longing its distance, and countless hidden, well-protected refuges are prepared for the soul that strives for safety and peace.
- Etwas über Landschaftsmalerei. In Phöbus. Ein Journal für die Kunst. Edited by Heinrich von Kleist and Adam H. Müller, First Year, Fourth and Fifth Issue, Carl Gottlob Gärtner, Dresden April and May 1808, p.71.
- Man cannot be conceived outside of the state.
- Daß die politischen Systeme aus todten Begriffen erbauet sind, während die lebendige Idee darin herrschen sollte in: Die Elemente der Staatskunst, First Part, Second Lecture, J. D. Sander, Berlin 1809, p. 40.
- The state is [...] an alliance of past generations with the following ones, and vice versa. It is an alliance not only of contemporaries, but also of 'spatial contemporaries'; [...] The state is not merely the union of many 'living side by side', but also of many 'succeeding one another' families.
- Daß der Nutzen und das Recht, die als Begriffe einander widersprechen, sich versöhnen, sobald sie iddenweise erkannt werden in: Die Elemente der Staatskunst, First Part, Third Lecture, J. D. Sander, Berlin 1809, p. 84.
- [...] the soul feels, in contemplation of the landscape, a gentle being-carried, a movement as if by an invisible spirit, through which lingering on the charming details first gains its appeal.
- Etwas über Landschaftsmalerei. in: Phöbus. Ein Journal für die Kunst. Edited by Heinrich von Kleist and Adam H. Müller, First Year, Fourth and Fifth Issue, Carl Gottlob Gärtner, Dresden April and May 1808, p. 73.
- A poem is a whole, complete 'made' world: a fiction is a half, incomplete, poorly made piece of world.
- Vorlesungen über das Schöne, II. In Phöbus. Ein Journal für die Kunst. Edited by Heinrich von Kleist and Adam H. Müller, First Year, Third Issue, Carl Gottlob Gärtner, Dresden March 1808, p. 19.
- An artist who forgets the world over his work will never speak to the world through the work, may perhaps tear the work dead from himself, but will never be able to close it into its own free and necessary life.
- When the world of the senses and the world of the spirit appear absolutely separated, then sin is at its peak: it has systematized and completed itself.
- Versöhnung der Sinnenwelt mit der Geisterwelt. in Adam Müllers vermischte Schriften über Staat, Philosophie und Kunst, First Part, III. Contributions to the Philosophy of Morals and of Nature, Camesina'sche Buchhandlung, Vienna 1812, p. 359.
- The reconciliation of science and art and of their noblest ideas with serious political life was the purpose of my larger works.
Quotes about Adam Müller
[edit]- Müller was a man of great and versatile talents, an excellent orator, and a suggestive writer.
