Franz Rosenzweig Quotes on Life
Franz Rosenzweig was a German Jewish philosopher and one of the great figures of twentieth-century Jewish thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Franz Rosenzweig on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Franz Rosenzweig:
“Truth is not what we possess but what we are sent to find.”
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Attributed to Franz Rosenzweig:
“The new thinking begins with experience and ends with experience.”
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Attributed to Franz Rosenzweig:
“To love is to step into the open with another.”
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“in Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought (1961/1998), p. 97”
Cognition is autonomous; it refuses to have any answers foisted on it from the outside. Yet it suffers without protest having certain questions prescribed to it from the outside (and it is here that my heresy regarding the unwritten law of the university originates). Not every question seems to me worth asking. Scientific curiosity and omnivorous aesthetic appetite mean equally little to me today,