Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the journey of becoming a better person is akin to a divine transformation, where self-education plays a crucial role.
Schlegel reflects on the idea that personal growth and moral development elevate an individual closer to a divine state. The processes of self-education and the pursuit of goodness are intertwined with the essence of humanity itself. By exploring and enhancing one's own character, a person transcends their earthly limitations, embodying qualities often attributed to the divine.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about personal development.
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.
It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such an extent that you disappear in your dancing, in your singing, in your celebration... is the only true religion I know of.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."
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