It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Mankind Copy Share Image
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Happy marriage Copy Share Image
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel I can Copy Share Image
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Excess Copy Share Image
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Feminine 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 Art Copy Share Image
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ingenious 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 Deliberate 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 Christian life Copy Share Image
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Aphorism Copy Share Image
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Able 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 Ancients Copy Share Image
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Able Copy Share Image
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Criticizes Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Appearance 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 Art Copy Share Image
Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Church Copy Share Image
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art 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… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Childish Copy Share Image
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Able 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
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Beautiful Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ancient Copy Share Image
An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophy Copy Share Image
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Criticism Copy Share Image
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Classification Copy Share Image
When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Consciousness Copy Share Image
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Creative Copy Share Image
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Creativity Copy Share Image
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Believes Copy Share Image
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Idea Copy Share Image
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Book 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
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Irony Copy Share Image
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius Copy Share Image
