Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs. — 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
