Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Educated Copy Share Image
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Compound Copy Share Image
The main thing is to know something and to say it. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In true prose everything must be underlined. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Prose Copy Share Image
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Mankind Copy Share Image
The historian is a prophet looking backward. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Historian Copy Share Image
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel History Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Nonsensical Copy Share Image
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Among Copy Share Image
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Purity Copy Share Image
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Contemplating Copy Share Image
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Excellent Copy Share Image
Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Age Copy Share Image
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art 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 Development Copy Share Image
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Claims Copy Share Image
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ancient 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 Exalted Copy Share Image
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Fall Copy Share Image
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophy 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 Feminine Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Alive 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 Absolutes Copy Share Image
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Able Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Demand 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 Antiquity Copy Share Image
What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Able Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Antithesis Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Absolutes 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 Art Copy Share Image
The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Advancing Copy Share Image
Virtue is reason which has become energy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Christianity Copy Share Image
