How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
Category Archive: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Plato’s philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.