Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Like Leibniz’s possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When ideas become Gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe’s Meister would have actually expressed what is — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The French Revolution, Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister are — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel