Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm FriedrichSchlegel, usually cited as Friedrich Schlegel, was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of the Jena romantics. He was a zealous promoter of the Romantic movement and inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Mickiewicz and Kazimierz Brodziński. Schlegel was a pioneer in Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, in what became known as Grimm's law, and morphological typology. As a young man he was...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 March 1772
CountryGermany
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel quotes about
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.
We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion...
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.