Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelPhilosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelThe meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelA definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWhere philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel