Quotes by Schlegel, Friedrich

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one >>

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first >>

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. >>

Quotations about Genius

Genius is sorrow's child. >>

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. >>

Every man is a potential genius until he does something. >>

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Schlegel, Friedrich