Quotes Friedrich Von Schlegel

He who does not become familiar with nature through love wil...

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the...

How many authors are there among writers? Author means origi...

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts....

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within t...

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of ...

In true prose everything must be underlined....

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the...

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and gr...

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none....

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind....

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy....

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally en...

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself....

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and throu...

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of b...

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works...

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to...

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean....

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but sti...

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas....

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology a...

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness,...

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wis...

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingd...