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
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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.
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.