Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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 the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dw...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consumin...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separati...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothin...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chao...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. Ther...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and est...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion nece...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they ar...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic scie...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written aga...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, wha...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
KARL FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The innermost meaning of sacrifice is the annihilation of the finite just because it is finite. In o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Good drama must be drastic.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Virtue is reason which has become energy.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL A historian is a prophet in reverse
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Many so-called artists are really products of nature's art.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The most insignificant authors have at least this similarity to the Author of the Heavens and the Ea...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Literature is the immortality of speech.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Literature is the immortality of speech
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a han...
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not...
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
FRIEDRICH (WILHELM) NIETZSCHE One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean ...
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial co...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, in...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exerci...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards r...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number o...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though h...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the e...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not wi...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we me...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though h...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL World history is a court of judgment.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be ...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize mean...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see thei...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of ...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Education is the art of making man ethical.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The re...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in u...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the asserti...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to ...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Zu einem wahrhaften Menschen gehören viele Götter, und er verschließt in seinem Herzen alle die M...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, a...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he f...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general exp...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their pas...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything fr...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his o...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Education is the art of making man ethical
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches...
FRIEDRICH KARL LUDWIG SCHOEDLER Last year was a dogfight, ... A.J. had a big pick at the end. It was a tough, physical Big Ten game ...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL You got to hit the guy with the ball. Honestly, that's it.
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL Looking at what Notre Dame does, I think they have the complete package. They have everything: They ...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL The thing with Texas is they have so many weapons, but I really think the speed of our defense will ...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL It's not necessarily revenge. But it's in the back of your mind.
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL It just looks like everybody's comfortable. I think they really feel confident and you can see that....
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL You don't want to say that a national championship is at stake so early in the season but, yeah. And...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL You can't let that happen. They're tall, big guys. You've got to be physical.
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL I've talked to guys who are going to start tailgating at 8 o'clock in the morning. I said, 'Wow, I h...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL That sign is up there every week. Every week it's the same thing. If you affect the quarterback they...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL It was one of those losses,
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL People have tried to rugby kick it, or kick it hard so it would bounce around. The best thing for us...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL Any time you get that depth back, it's a bonus, ... especially when you're facing a team like Michig...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL We feed off of each other, always know what the others are doing.
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL It's always a compliment,
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL They throw so much at you, a lot like San Diego State did against us. You don't know what they're do...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL We're smelling blood, too. They lost to Michigan. We're all the same right now.
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL I was tired of being miserable. I've got so much free time now, it's ridiculous.
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL When I was at the Academy, we started 6-0 [in 2002, finishing 8-5]. Why did we kind of slump off? We...
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL It's like the Michigan game last year,
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL That does create a problem, it's a very small reduction. We are not happy.
CLARE SCHLEGEL It is making a difference on the supply of pigs in Eastern Canada, particularly Ontario and Quebec. ...
CLARE SCHLEGEL Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the nu...
JEN SCHLEGEL We?re looking for a positive message and community building. We hope that people who have never met ...
JEN SCHLEGEL Some people will be using business intelligence without even knowing it.
KURT SCHLEGEL I had to take a long road. After my quarterfinal loss, I had to wrestle a lot.
JOEL SCHLEGEL He basically pinned himself. I didn't know if I was going to get the call though.
JOEL SCHLEGEL It was tough because I had just wrestled 45 minutes ago. Keeping my arm posted made the difference.
JOEL SCHLEGEL That's the thing about wrestling. You can get beat if you are the top guy. You've wrestled them a mi...
JOEL SCHLEGEL We?re hoping next year?s event will involve even more community groups. We?re hoping this will be an...
JEN SCHLEGEL We?re all invested in this community in one way or another. It helps you to get better at what you?r...
JEN SCHLEGEL Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music
FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON SCHELLING Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, t...
WILHELM WUNDT I didn't think; I experimented.
WILHELM ROENTGEN The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...
WILHELM REICH The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
WILHELM STEKEL You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...
WILHELM REICH I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...
WILHELM REICH It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...
WILHELM REICH You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...
WILHELM REICH Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...
WILHELM REICH You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...
WILHELM REICH The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one...
WILHELM STEKEL Anxiety is fear of one's self.
WILHELM STEKEL The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...
WILHELM REICH The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature m...
WILHELM STEKEL I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...
WILHELM REICH Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense per...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, wit...
WILHELM WUNDT Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
WILHELM STEINITZ