Friedrich Schelling Quotes on Knowledge
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was a 19th-century German philosopher and a leading figure of German Idealism alongside Fichte and Hegel. This page collects quotes attributed to Friedrich Schelling on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Schelling:
“History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Schelling:
“The first step into philosophy is to know oneself.”
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“What is Europe really but a sterile trunk which owes everything to oriental grafts?”
Letter of 18 December 1806 to Windischmann, quoted by Rene Gerard, L'Orient et la pensée romantique allemande, Paris 1963,, p. 213. quoted in Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe p. 195 -
“If there is to be any philosophy at all, this contradiction must be resolved – and the solution of this problem, or answer to the question: how can we think both of Presentations as conforming to objects, and objects as conforming to presentations? is, not the first, but the highest task of transcendental philosophy.”
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“It is easy to see that this problem can be solved neither in theoretical nor in practical philosophy, but only in a higher discipline, which is the link that combines them, and neither theoretical nor practical, but both at once.”
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“All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.”
Alle Regeln, die man dem Studieren vorschreiben könnte, fassen sich in der einen zusammen: Lerne nur, um selbst zu schaffen. -
“On University Studies (1803), Third Lecture . Cited by Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD (Basingstoke: Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), p. vi.”
Alle Regeln, die man dem Studieren vorschreiben könnte, fassen sich in der einen zusammen: Lerne nur, um selbst zu schaffen.