Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, later von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him between Johann Gottlieb Fichte, his mentor in his early years, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, his one-time university roommate, early friend, and later rival. Interpreting Schelling's philosophy is regarded as difficult because of its evolving nature.

German - Philosopher | January 27, 1775 - August 20, 1854

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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

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

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

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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