Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity’s main characteristic. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a Godlike existence left to man from paradise. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel