Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Language, Excellent

• The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Misunderstood, Use, Literature

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #19, 1798.

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Art, World

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