Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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