Friedrich Schelling Quotes on Nature
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 nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Schelling:
“Nature is visible spirit, spirit is invisible nature.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Schelling:
“Architecture is frozen music.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Schelling:
“Without the contradiction of opposites, there would be no life, no movement, no progress.”
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“How both the objective world accommodates to presentations in us, and presentations in us to the objective world, is unintelligible unless between the two worlds, the ideal and the real, there exists a pre-determined harmony . But this latter is itself unthinkable unless the activity, whereby the objective world, is produced, is at bottom identical with that which expresses itself in volition, and vice versa.”
Wie zugleich die objektive Welt nach Vorstellungen in uns, und Vorstellungen in uns nach der objektiven Welt sich bequemen, ist nicht zu begreifen, wenn nicht zwischen den beiden Welten, der ideellen und der reellen, eine vorherbestimmte Harmonie existiert. Diese vorherbestimmte Harmonie aber ist selbst nicht denkbar, wenn nicht die Tätigkeit, durch welche die objektive Welt produziert ist, ursprü