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
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.