Best 14 quotes of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling on MyQuotes

Architecture in general is frozen music.

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?

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

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.

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Die Seele alles Hasses, ist Liebe, und im heftigsten Zorn zeigt sich nur die im innersten Zentrum angegriffene und aufgereizte Stille.

Those, then, who want to find themselves at the starting point of a truly free philosophy, have to depart even from God. Here the motto is: whoever wants to preserve it will lose it, and whoever abandons it will find it. Only those have reached the ground in themselves and have become aware of the depths of life, who have at one time abandoned everything and have themselves been abandoned by everything, for whom everything has been lost, and who have found themselves alone, face-to-face with the infinite: a decisive step which Plato compared with death. That which Dante saw written on the door of the inferno must be written in a different sense also at the entrance to philosophy: ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.’ Those who look for true philosophy must be bereft of all hope, all desire, all longing. They must not wish anything, not know anything, must feel completely bare and impoverished, must give everything away in order to gain everything. It is a grim step to take, it is grim to have to depart from the final shore.