“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“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
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“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.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Category: poetry
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