Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Spirit Quotations

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.