“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.