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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

"The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with energy and ethical significance."

Source : "Lectures on the Method of Academic Study" by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, translated by E. S. Morgan, edited by Norbert Guterman, 1966.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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“I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.”
“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.”

Source : "Evolution". Book edited by Mark Ridley, p. 389, 1997.
“We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemyâ€™s power, and raised up into newness of life in God.”
“I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.”
“One [paradox] is that ***** follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core ***** were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one of the first countries where women voted. Then Germany, again, at the forefront of progress. Then America in the '80s, when women were closing the pay gap. And Japan, same thing.”
“Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.”
“Traveling by motor is just one situation after another. ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.”
“Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?”

Source : Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

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