Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Love, Art, Discipline

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

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Genius, Literature

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Birthday, Men, Self

• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Genius, Spirit, Reason

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #366, 1798.

• As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Communication, Men, Artist

• Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Attitude, Greatness, Understanding

• Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spiritual, Men, Genius

• Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Genius, Spirit, Wit

• 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

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