It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The innermost meaning of sacrifice is the annihilation of the finite just because it is finite. In o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Good drama must be drastic.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Virtue is reason which has become energy.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Many so-called artists are really products of nature's art.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The most insignificant authors have at least this similarity to the Author of the Heavens and the Ea...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
KARL FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dw...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consumin...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separati...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothin...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chao...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. Ther...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and est...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion nece...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they ar...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic scie...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written aga...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, wha...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Literature is the immortality of speech.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Literature is the immortality of speech
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a han...
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Love therefore
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Confidence awakens confidence.
FRIEDRICH VON SACHSEN Speech is always bolder than action.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmiss...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the gr...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is criminal to steal a purse,
daring to steal a fortune,
a mark of greatness to steal a cro...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forw...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Stern is the on-look of necessity,
Not without shudder may a human hand
Grasp the mysterious u...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest sourc...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law o...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER To save all we must risk all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear alle...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I am better than my reputation.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ-like is it for sin ...
FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. Th...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Great souls endure in silence.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The strong man is strongest when alone.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- that literally ...
FRIEDRICH VON HUEGEL Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The universe is one of God's thoughts.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Even the weak become strong when they are united.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The will of man is his happiness.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Will it, and set to work briskly.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Votes should be weighed not counted.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easi...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Architecture in general is frozen music.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHELLING The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Have hope. Though clouds environs now,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanic...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pou...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Sorrow is brief but joy is endless
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The universe is one of God's thoughts
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He that is overcautious will accomplish little
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's existence
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Great souls suffer in silence
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One can give advice comfortably from a safe port
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Every true genius is bound to be naive.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth lives on in the midst of deception
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who considers too much will perform little
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER