Wilhelm Quotes

Youth should heed the older-witted
When they say, don't go too far --
Now their sins are all committed,
Lord, how virtuous they are! - Wilhelm Busch

World history is a court of judgment. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science. - Wilhelm Ostwald