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Famous Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
“Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.”
“Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.”
“Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.”
“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.”
“A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.”
“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.”
“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
“Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.”
“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”
“Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.”
“What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.”
“When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.”
“All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.”
“How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.”
“No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.”
“Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.”
“Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.”
“The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.”
“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
“Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.”