Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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 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.

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

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.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

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

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

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