Quotes by Schlegel, Friedrich

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the >>

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polishe >>

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

Quotations about Innocence

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. >>

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and >>

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. >>

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Schlegel, Friedrich