The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
More Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.