Quotes About Schelling

Despite Schelling's aspirations and claims, he was instrumental not in the completion of metaphysics, but rather in its abandonment.

Schelling] viewed art as an organ of metaphysical cognition. The vehicle through which the mysteries of the highest transcendental truths are revealed to mankind.

Models tend to be useful when they are simultaneously simple enough to fit a variety of behaviors and complex enough to fit behaviors that need the help of an explanatory model.

What resists phenomenology within us -- natural being, the 'barbarous' source that Schelling spoke of -- cannot remain outside phenomenology and should have its place within it.

This was something already signaled for Fackenheim by Schelling's treatment of radical evil in Of Human Freedom. See An Epitaph for German Judaism,

Se non la capisci tu che fai la filosofa, stiamo messi bene. E di che colore è la filosofia?» «È nera, come la notte di Schelling, una notte senza fine in cui tutte le vacche sono nere. Perché ci sono delle cose che la ragione non può nemmeno sfiorare. Perché nella vita ci sono dei dolori che non possono essere spiegati. .»