Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the journey of becoming a better person is akin to a divine transformation, where self-education plays a crucial role.
Schlegel reflects on the idea that personal growth and moral development elevate an individual closer to a divine state. The processes of self-education and the pursuit of goodness are intertwined with the essence of humanity itself. By exploring and enhancing one's own character, a person transcends their earthly limitations, embodying qualities often attributed to the divine.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about personal development.
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.
Let me go to the house of the Father.
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
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