There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

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• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

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

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

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

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

  Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

  Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

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

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

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

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

  Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

  All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

  Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:

  Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they a