Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
