Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea of being inspired by transformative potential and the hope that it brings for the future.
Friedrich Schleiermacher’s quote reflects on the profound experiences of discovering elements that possess the power to incite change and renewal. The 'hidden fire' symbolizes creativity and potential, which ignite feelings of love and hope within us, guiding us towards envisioning a more promising future. This sense of being drawn to what can ignite transformation highlights the human spirit's resilience and eagerness for progress.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a motivational seminar about embracing change.
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.
The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.
Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.
Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes.
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
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