“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
Religion
“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
ImaginationAll Quotes by 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.”
Education“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
History“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
Nature“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.”
Family“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”
Poetry“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.”
Age“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
Art“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.”
Family“Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.”
Future“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
Poetry“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“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
Beauty“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“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.”
Nature“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”
Society“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.”
Poetry“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
Art“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
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