Friedrich wilhelm joseph schelling biography of martin

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling (1775-1854)

 

"All existence must be conditioned in order that it may be actual, that is, personal, existence. God's existence, too, could not be personal if it were not conditioned, except that he had the conditioning factor within himself and not outside himself....Man never gains control over the condition even though in evil he strives to do so; it is only loaned to him independent of him; hence his personality and selfhood can never be raised to complete actuality.

This is the sadness which adheres to all finite life....Activated selfhood is necessary for life's intensity; without there would be complete death, goodness slumbering; for where there is no battle there is no life. The will of the depths is therefore only the awakening of life, not evil immediately and for itself....Whoever has no material or force for evil in himself is also impotent for good.....The time of merely historical faith is past, as soon as the possibility of