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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

German - Poet | March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Humor Spirit Wit Compound Explosion

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Love Marriage Happy Song Poem

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Thoughts Long Reunion Separation

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wisdom You True Will Center Combine

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry Skill Nothing Against Been

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Music Art Mathematics Poetry Logic

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Person Uneducated Himself Caricature

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Genius Spirit Wit Reason Mechanical

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Family Woman Loving Center Only

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry Rhetorical Third Which Then

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ideas Thoughts Infinite Divine

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Man Religion Thoughts Chaos Feelings

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