Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.”

“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”

“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?”

“Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.”

“Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.”

“Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.”

“Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.”

“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.”