Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Profession : Poet

Birth : March 10, 1772

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

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

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

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

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

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel