Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — 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
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — 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
Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has… — 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
