40 quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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

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“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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?” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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

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“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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

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