Quotes by : Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.....

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character....

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and....

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against....

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his....

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

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and....

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