Quotes by Schlegel, Friedrich

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. >>

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

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world l >>

Quotations about Aphorisms and Epigrams

Epigrams succeed where epics fail. >>

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in th >>

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. >>

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Schlegel, Friedrich