Quotes of Friedrich Von Schlegel - somelinesforyou

“ Good drama must be drastic. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ The historian is a prophet looking backwards. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ The historian is a prophet looking backwards. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ The historian is a prophet looking backwards. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Virtue is reason which has become energy. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Good drama must be drastic. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Good drama must be drastic. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Good drama must be drastic. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ 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 complete in itself like a hedgehog. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Virtue is reason which has become energy. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ The historian is a prophet looking backwards. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ 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 complete in itself like a hedgehog. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Good drama must be drastic. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel
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