Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

I really do prioritise humour in people. It's a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.