Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence… — Quoted

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“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel · Poetry

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Art

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

History

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.

Education

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.

Respect