Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Educated person Copy Share Image
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Familiar Copy Share Image
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Literature Copy Share Image
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Agility 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 Art Copy Share Image
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophy Copy Share Image
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius Copy Share Image
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Mind Copy Share Image
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ideas 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
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Absolutes Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Beauty Copy Share Image
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Convincing 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 Blow Copy Share Image
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Compassion Copy Share Image
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophical 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
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
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
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 Areas Copy Share Image
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ingenious 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
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
