Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm FriedrichSchlegel, usually cited as Friedrich Schlegel, 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. As a young man he was...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 March 1772
CountryGermany
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel quotes about
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.