Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Family, Woman, Loving

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Long, Thoughts, After

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Chaos, Irony, Clear

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Truth, Lives, Invisible

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art, Sense, Artist

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

Good, God, Become

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

Men, Struggle, Battle

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time, Good, Great

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Politics, Morality, Economics

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Person, Himself, Uneducated

The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Looking, Prophet, Backward

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Stomach, Reader, Critic

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Men, Respect, Two

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty, Attractive, Sublime

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophy, Middle, Begins

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Love, Nature, Through

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nature, Creative

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Themselves, Seen, Feminine

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Smile, Anger

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Feelings, Thoughts

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Good, Best, Lost

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Reason, Electrical, Shock

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophy, Rather, Means

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Character, Appearance, Witty

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Poet

Born: March 10, 1772

Died: January 12, 1829

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