“Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.”
Future
“Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”
Nature“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“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“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”
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“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 has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
Poetry“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“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.”
Science“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“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
Poetry“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“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
Art“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 is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
Religion“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“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
Education“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.”
Marriage