Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man. — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it,… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
“If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
