Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlege

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

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.

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.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

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.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

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.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

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

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future 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.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

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?

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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