A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form...

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form...

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds...

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds...

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to...

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to...

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the...

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the...

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments...

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments...

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct...

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct...

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are...

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are...

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and...

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and...