Poems by Friedrich von Schlegel
Mathematics
... Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. ...
dim inkling
... Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude. ...
Speak Poetry
... But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion ...
