Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes


The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.


Citations

Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich. Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments. Translated by Peter Firchow, University of Minnesota Press, 1971, p. 164.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Born: March 10, 1772
  • Died: January 12, 1829
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.