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 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. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Poetry
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 Education
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 Age
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 Anger
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 Poetry
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Brainy
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Poetry
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Poetry
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 Poetry
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Poetry
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Religion
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Politics
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Society
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Poetry
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Poetry
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Wisdom
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 Smile
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Poetry
