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.
The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.
What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.
Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.
After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit of the larger purpose, realizing the rule of law. ... This is not to deny that the will to win drives those efforts. ... Rather, it is simply to insist that ultimately, neither the accused nor society is served unless the integrity of the system is set above the expedient purposes of either side.
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