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
I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
In true prose everything must be underlined.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.