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.
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelThink of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelAll the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelAbout no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel