The historian is a prophet looking backward. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Historian Copy Share Image
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Divine Copy Share Image
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Finite Copy Share Image
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Religion Copy Share Image
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ahead Copy Share Image
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Caricatures Copy Share Image
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Education Copy Share Image
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Attractive Copy Share Image
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art 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 Facts Copy Share Image
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Different Copy Share Image
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Allegory Copy Share Image
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Kant Copy Share Image
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ancient 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 Entitled Copy Share Image
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art 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
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
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Form 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
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
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Contact 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
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
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Excellent Copy Share Image
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Contemplating 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 Classical 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
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Gradual 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 a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Agility 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
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
