Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel's Quotes

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel