Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

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