Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

“The romantic poetry is a progressive, universal poetry.”

“The whole history of modern poetry is a running commentary on the following brief text of Shakespeare: 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact'.”

“It is equally fatal to the spirit to have a system and to have none. It will simply have to decide to combine the two.”

“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time.”

“Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.”

“When reason and love are united, you have the highest form of existence.”

“The historian is a prophet in reverse.”

“A fragment, like a miniature work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and be complete in itself like a porcupine.”

“Irony is the form of paradox.”

“Every art should become science, and every science should become art.”

“Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of imagination.”