Top 88 Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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.

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

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

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

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.