An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
A 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 wa...
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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.
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.