Friedrich Schleiermacher Quotes

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Art, Greatest, Everything

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Work, Good, Truth

No God without a world, and no world without God.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Nature, Good, Feeling

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Religion, Feeling, Essence

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Good, Art, Confusion

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Nationality: German

Type: Theologian

Born: November 21, 1768

Died: February 12, 1834

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