“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
“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
“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
Art“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.”
Art“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
Religion“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.”
Family“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
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“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.”
Politics“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.”
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“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“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.”
Science“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“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“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
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“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“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
Religion“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
Imagination