Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Quotes

• All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Order, Study

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1966). “On university studies”

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• Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Spirit, Invisible, Visible

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• To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Self, Mastery, Achieve

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• The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Brain, Earth, Metamorphosis

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• Architecture in general is frozen music.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Design, Frozen, Architecture

  'Philosophie der Kunst' (1809)

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• There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Character, Mean, Men

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• The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Ideas

  "Lectures on the Method of Academic Study" by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, translated by E. S. Morgan, edited by Norbert Guterman, 1966.

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• Only he who knows God is truly moral.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Moral, Knowing God, Knows

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• Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Perfection, Atheism, Doe

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1936). “Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom”, p.84, Open Court Publishing

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• Mastery is revealed in limitation.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Mastery, Limitation

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• The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  People, Justice, Criminals

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• One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Vitality, Language, Speak

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• ...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Law, Absolutes

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• Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Music, Space, Frozen

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