Quotes by : Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

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

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

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....

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

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