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
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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.
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.
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.