Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

• A historian is a prophet in reverse.

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

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• Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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

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• Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

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• Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

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• Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

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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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• Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

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• What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

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

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

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• Virtue is reason which has become energy.

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• Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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• Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (89)

Birth:	10th March, 1772
Death:	12th January, 1829
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Poet

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of the Jena romantics. He was a zealous promoter of the Romantic movement and inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Mickiewicz and Kazimierz Brodziński. Schlegel was a pioneer in Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, in what became known as Grimm's law, and morphological typology.

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