Nature should be visible spirit, spirit invisible nature.

Die Natur soll der sichtbare Geist, der Geist die unsichtbare Natur sein.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Major figure of German Idealism (1775-1854). At Tubingen aged fifteen with Hegel and Holderlin, he moved through Naturphilosophie, identity philosophy and a late philosophy of revelation — Proteus Schelling.

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Source: Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur (1797), EinleitungVerified

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's Other Quotes

History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.

Only he who has tasted freedom can feel the desire to make over everything in its image.

Has creation a final goal? And if so, why was it not reached at once?... Because God is Life, and not merely Being.

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