It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Mankind Copy Share Image
The main thing is to know something and to say it. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Know Copy Share Image
In true prose everything must be underlined. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Prose Copy Share Image
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Compound Copy Share Image
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Educated Copy Share Image
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Caricature Copy Share Image
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Inspiration Copy Share Image
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Family Copy Share Image
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Essence Copy Share Image
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius Copy Share Image
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Compassion Copy Share Image
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Education 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 Divinity 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 Abyss Copy Share Image
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Characteristics Copy Share Image
You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Destroy Copy Share Image
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Heart Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Age Copy Share Image
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Infinite Copy Share Image
Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Education Copy Share Image
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Advantage Copy Share Image
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Axioms 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 Books Copy Share Image
Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Abundance Copy Share Image
In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Absolute freedom 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
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
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
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
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
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Humanity Copy Share Image
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Christianity Copy Share Image
Virtue is reason which has become energy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
