About Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel:
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of the Jena romantics. He was a zealous promoter of the Romantic movement and inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Mickiewicz and Kazimierz Brodzi?ski. Schlegel was a pioneer in Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, in what became known as Grimm's law, and morphological typology. As a young man he was an atheist, a radical, and an individualist. Ten years later, the same Schlegel converted to Catholicism. Around 1810 he was a diplomat and journalist in the service of Metternich, surrounded by monks and pious men of society.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWhat is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelIrony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelMysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelConsidered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel