Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Irony

Quotes about: Irony

• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Agility, Irony, Chaos

• Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Ironic, Literature, Irony

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, (p. 151), 1968.

• Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Home, Men

• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Italian

• The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Silly, Self, Irony

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