As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul’s shining through it, so the world is beautified by the shining through it of God.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Topics: God
To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles.—He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Topics: Prejudice
In one thing men of all ages are alike: they have believed obstinately in themselves.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
I have all reverence for principles which grow out of sentiments; but as to sentiments which grow out of principles, you shall scarcely build a house of cards thereon.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Topics: Principles
I have never found a thorough, pervading, enduring morality but in those who feared God.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Topics: Morality
Manage as we may misery and suffering will always cleave to the border of superfluity.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
There are but two religions,—Christianity and paganism, the worship of God and idolatry. A third between these is not possible. Where idolatry ends, there Christianity begins; and where idolatry begins, there Christianity ends.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Topics: Religion
It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves.—And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Topics: Selfishness
Every great example takes hold of us with the authority of a miracle, and says to us, “If ye had but faith, ye, also, could do the same things.”
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Topics: Example
What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe—that Spirit which alone is self-subsistent, from which all truth proceeds, without which is no truth?
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Topics: Repentance
We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no abiding moment.
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher
- Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher, Scholar
- Johann Gottfried Herder German Critic, Poet
- Moses Mendelssohn German Jewish Philosopher
- Immanuel Hermann Fichte German Philosopher
- Wilhelm von Humboldt German Statesman, Scholar
- Martin Heidegger German Existential Philosopher
- Immanuel Kant Prussian German Philosopher
- Friedrich Schiller German Poet
- Nikos Kazantzakis Greek Novelist, Statesman
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