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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time Poetry Place Only Would Most

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Water Infinite Drink Dogs Books Who

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Age Community Men Genius Know Knows

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Man Genius True Virtue Complete His

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Life Women Poetry Women Are Feminine

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Chaos Irony Consciousness Agility

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Good Great Time Irony Same Paradox

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Now Ridiculous Purity Genres

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art Enthusiasm Artist Sense Instinct

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing Witty More Mythology Ancient

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Become Being Only He Philosopher

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Future Religion Philosophy Plato

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