Famous Quotes / Friedrich Schlegel
11 Quotations by Friedrich Schlegel
- 1. A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
- 2. An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c ...
- 3. Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
- 4. Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and ...
- 5. Good drama must be drastic.
- 6. In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
- 7. Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
- 8. It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
- 9. Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men ...
- 10. Virtue is reason which has become energy.
- 11. What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.