Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Mean, Literature

• Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Politics, Ethics

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

• Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Veils, Literature, Want

• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Gratitude, Men, Literature

• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Learning, Literature, Caricatures

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Two Extremes, Extremes

• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Language, Excellent

• Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beauty, Sublime, Literature

• Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Spirit, Explosions

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Respect, Artist, Men

• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Society, Mosaics, Literature

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #5, 1798.

• Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Humanity, Elements

• Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Genius, Literature

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Humanity, Religion, Literature

• Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Inspiration, Long

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #37 (B&S), 1798.

• Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Mean, Literature, Morality

• 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.

• Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Mean, Doe

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

• He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Religion, Tools

• Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Creative, Literature

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Prophet, Historian

• Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Character, Imagination

  "The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics" edited by Frederick C. Beiser, (p. 131), 1996.

• 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.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Smile, Pain, Anger

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Struggle, Men, Soldier

• The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Misunderstood, Use, Literature

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #19, 1798.

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