“Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.” Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.” PersonsLiteratureLearningCaricaturesUneducatedEducated And Uneducated Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.” MeanLiteratureMoralityParadox Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.” PhilosophyReligionLiteratureSpeakTools Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.” MenLiteratureCreative Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.” MenProduceImmortal Author: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.” ArtPhilosophyLogicMathematicsSensualRelatePlasticSensuousArt Music Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.” ReasonSpiritGeniusWitChemicals Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The historian is a prophet looking backward.” LiteratureProphetHistorian Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.” MeanArtArt IsInstrumentsRevengeWitSensualInfamousExacting Revenge Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.” CharacterLiteratureImaginationWittyAppearanceWitDivinityMysticismFlashExternal Appearance Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel