19 quotes
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Poets and priests were one in the beginning, and they only separated in later times. But the real poet is always a priest, just as the real priest always remains a poet.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Where children are, there is a golden age.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Many counterrevolutionary books have been written in favor of the Revolution. But Burke has written a revolutionary book against the Revolution.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
The highest life is mathematics.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations.
Blüthenstaub (1798)