“What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.” Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.” ReasonContactShockElectricalPolemics Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.” MeanDoePhilosophyUseLiteratureSake Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.” RidiculousGenrePurity Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.” WorldLittlesArtLiteratureOughtWorks Of ArtIsolatedAphorismHedgehogs Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.” LiteratureExtremesTwo Extremes Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.” ArtDoneEnoughFormLiteratureDivineDepthHeight Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.” WantShould Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.” MeanLiterature Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.” WorldArtLanguageEducationMythologyLiberal Education Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“In true prose everything must be underlined.” LiteratureProse Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel