Friedrich Schlegel

"It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two."

"Die romantische Poesie ist eine progressive Universalpoesie."

"In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants."

"Whoever hasn’t yet arrived at the clear realization that there might be a greatness existing entirely outside his own sphere and for which he might have absolutely no feeling; whoever hasn’t at least felt obscure intimations concerning the approximate location of this greatness in the geography of the human spirit: that person either has no genius in his own sphere, or else he hasn’t been educated to the level of the classic."

"Die Pflicht der Kantianer verhält sich zu dem Gebot der Ehre, der Stimme des Berufs und der Gottheit in uns, wie die getrocknete Pflanze zur frischen Blume am lebenden Stamme."

"Honour is the mysticism of legality."