“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
“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
ArtAll 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“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“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“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
Art“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
Nature“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
Religion“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“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.”
Marriage“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”
Nature“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“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
Imagination“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“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
Art“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“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“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
History“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“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
Religion