“ What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ 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… Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ 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
“ He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ 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
“ The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“ Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
