“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
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.”
ArtAll Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
Imagination“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
Beauty“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“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.”
Politics“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“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“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
Religion“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
Education“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“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.”
Poetry“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“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
Nature“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.”
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“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”
Nature“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“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
History“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
Wisdom