Poet Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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.
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.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

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