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.
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWomen do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelIrony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWhat is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelMan is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelNovels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel