Has creation a final goal? And if so, why was it not reached at once?... Because God is Life, and not merely Being.

Hat die Schöpfung einen Endzweck, warum ist er nicht gleich erreicht?... Weil Gott Leben und nicht bloß ein Sein ist.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Major figure of German Idealism (1775-1854). At Tubingen aged fifteen with Hegel and Holderlin, he moved through Naturphilosophie, identity philosophy and a late philosophy of revelation — Proteus Schelling.

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