199 Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

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

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

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

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

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

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.