Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on religion
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. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on religion
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 on religion
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. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on religion
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 on respect
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on science
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. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on science
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 on smile
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on society
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 on truth
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on wisdom
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 on women