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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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About Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel






Did you know about Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel?

At a later period he was councillor of legation in the Austrian embassy at the Frankfurt diet but in 1818 he returned to Vienna. Schlegel et la genie du romantisme allemand (1904); by the same Erläuterungen In F. Culture et traduction dans l'Allemagne romantique: Herder Goethe Schlegel Novalis Humboldt Schleiermacher Hölderlin.

With his older brother August Wilhelm Schlegel he was a critical leader of German Romanticism.

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