Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.”

“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.”

“Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.”

“What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.”

“Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.”

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

“Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.”

“One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.”

“The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.”

“All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.”