Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

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Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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