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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and indologist.

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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.

Tags: Religion, Smile, Pain
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Tags: Hope, Movies, Jealousy
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Tags: Everything, Else
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Tags: Music, Poetry, Philosophy
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.

Tags: Life, Science, Without
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Tags: Cannot, Pleasure, Schools
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.

Tags: Priesthood, Pastime
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Tags: Life, Whether, Expression
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Tags: Distress, Affecting
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Tags: Life, Great, Live
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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