Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Quotes

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.

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

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

Man has been placed on that summit where he contains within him the source of self-impulsion toward good and evil in equal measure; the nexus of the principles within him is not a bond of necessity but of freedom. He stands at the dividing line; whatever he chooses will be his act, but he cannot remain in indecision because God must necessarily reveal himself and because nothing at all in creation can remain ambiguous.

All phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

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 for anything, not know anything, must feel completely bare and impoverished.

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

The I think, I am, is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

There is no greatness without a continual solicitation to madness which, while it must be overcome, must never be completely lacking. One might profit by classifying men in this respect. The one kind are those in whom there is no madness at all ... and are so-called men of intellect whose works and deeds are nothing but cold works and deeds of the intellect.... But where there is no madness, there is, to be sure, also no real, active, living intellect. For wherein is intellect to prove itself but in the conquest, mastery, and ordering of madness?

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Nature shall be the visible spirit, and spirit, invisible nature.

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?