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
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
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 Image
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion,… — 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… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just… — 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
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
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
