Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Christianity Copy Share Image
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Education 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
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
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 Copy Share Image
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Books Copy Share Image
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
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 Copy Share Image
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Chaos 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
Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Abundance 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
In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Absolute freedom 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
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
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Age 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
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Inspiration Copy Share Image
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Family Copy Share Image
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — 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
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius Copy Share Image
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Essence Copy Share Image
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Disrespect Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Aphorism Copy Share Image
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophy Copy Share Image
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Epic Copy Share Image
