Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Plato’s philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion…

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself…

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised…

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and…

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center…

Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the…

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the…

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less…

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous…

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third…

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom…

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her…

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center…

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to…

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty…