Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

"He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her."

"He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion."

"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."

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

"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."

"One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry."

"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."

"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?"

"Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher."

"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."

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