“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
“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.”
ArtAll Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“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“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
Beauty“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
Poetry“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“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.”
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“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“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
History“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
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“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.”
Science“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“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”
Nature“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.”
Family“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
Wisdom“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“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
Art“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.”
Poetry