Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Spirit, Explosions

• 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

• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Revenge, Mean

• 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.

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

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Genius, Spirit, Reason

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #366, 1798.

• The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Important, Literature, Imitation

• One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Should Have, Style, Wish

• In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Reflection, Reality

• Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Genius, Spirit, Wit

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