“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.”
Anger
“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
WisdomAll Quotes by 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.”
Art“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
Wisdom“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.”
Art“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”
Poetry“The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.”
Religion“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.”
Respect“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
Imagination“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.”
Truth“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
Poetry“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
Poetry“Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.”
Religion“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
History“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
Religion“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.”
Poetry“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.”
History“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?”
Positive“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.”
Science“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”
Society“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.”
Poetry