“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.”
Family
“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”
PoetryAll Quotes by 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.”
Anger“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“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
Poetry“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
Poetry“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.”
Poetry“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.”
Poetry“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.”
Marriage“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“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“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
Art“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“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
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 is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
Religion“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.”
Science“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“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 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