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Friedrich Schleiermacher

 

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

“Eternal humanity is unweariedly busy in creating and in representing itself in the most varied ways in the provisional appearance of finite life.”

  • From Friedrich Schleiermacher’s On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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