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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

philosopher, translator, writer, novelist, literary critic, university teacher, poet, editor, historian, literary theorist, art theorist, art historian

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1772 – 1829

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was a German literary critic, philosopher, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel