“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.”
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“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
Art“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“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”
Art“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
Poetry“Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.”
Future“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.”
Education“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“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
Religion“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
Education“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
Religion“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“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
Poetry“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
History“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.”
Poetry“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
Imagination“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?”
Poetry“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
Nature“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“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
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