Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWe do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelSince philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWomen do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel