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.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that a priest perceives reality beyond the physical world, seeing material existence as a metaphor for deeper spiritual truths.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel emphasizes the idea that a priest operates within a spiritual dimension, interpreting the visible world as mere symbolism of greater truths. This perspective indicates that true understanding and faith involve looking beyond the material and tangible aspects of reality, recognizing a deeper allegorical significance to life experiences.
In practice
During a sermon about faith and perception, this quote could inspire reflection on how we understand our spiritual journeys.
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.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm'd. See, here it is-- I hold it towards you.
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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