“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.” Quote by 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
“It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.” MindReincarnation Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.” LiteratureMankindPeculiar Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.” MenWorldExistenceEntitledPretender Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.” LiteratureFragments Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.” IdeasNo IdeaIsolated Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.” LiteratureChristianityAncientWittyMythologyMysticalGrotesqueGood Christian Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.” WisdomSchoolFormNovelPracticalsDialogueOur TimeSocratic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel