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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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The main thing is to know something and to say it.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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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.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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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.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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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.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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Virtue is reason which has become energy.


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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


— 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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