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. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 1 Share Now -
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 2 Share Now -
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 3 Share Now -
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. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 4 Share Now -
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. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 5 Share Now -
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 6 Share Now -
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 7 Share Now -
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 8 Share Now -
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 9 Share Now -
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. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 10 Share Now -
