Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in…

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich 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…

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and mod…

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel