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
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Should Copy Share Image
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Excellent 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
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Children 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
True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Arbitrary 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
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Family 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 Misunderstood Copy Share Image
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
Virtue is reason which has become energy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius 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
The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Bad person 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
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
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Finite Copy Share Image
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Family Copy Share Image
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophy Copy Share Image
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Accomplished 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
