Ancient Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel