3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Plato’s philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
