Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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Irony is a form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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
To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel