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
Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Able 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
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Divine 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
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius Copy Share Image
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel God Copy Share Image
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel History Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Historical Copy Share Image
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Disrespect Copy Share Image
