"Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?"

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Source : Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1936). “Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom”, p.84, Open Court Publishing

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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“This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.”
“The main obligation is to amuse yourself.”

Source : "I Seem to be a Verb". Book by Buckminster Fuller, p. 62, 1970.
“I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.”
“He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.”
“I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.”
“I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.”
“If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.”
“Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:-not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, -what idea he is called to represent.”

Source : Victor Cousin (1832). “Introduction to the History of Philosophy”, p.240

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