Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius 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
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Childbirth Copy Share Image
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Genius Copy Share Image
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Philosophy 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
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
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 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 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 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
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Divinity Copy Share Image
We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Depth Copy Share Image
Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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 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 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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Education Copy Share Image
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Character Copy Share Image
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art Copy Share Image
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Abyss Copy Share Image
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art 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
Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Divine Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Age Copy Share Image
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Poetry 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
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
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
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
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 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
