The knowledge of nature is a good thing; but it must be studied primarily in its natural and healthy connection with ourselves. I would not force young people to court a curious intimacy with worms, and beetles, and monkeys, and other creatures removed from the natural range of human sympathy.


In: John Stuart Blackie, The Wisdom of Goethe, Nature - Natural History (p. 182), William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh, Scotland. 1883

Friedrich Schelling Quotes

The knowledge of nature is a good thing; but it must be studied primarily in its natural and healthy connection with ourselves. I would not force...

The knowledge of nature is a good thing; but it must be studied primarily in its natural and healthy connection with ourselves. I would not force...

The knowledge of nature is a good thing; but it must be studied primarily in its natural and healthy connection with ourselves. I would not force...

The knowledge of nature is a good thing; but it must be studied primarily in its natural and healthy connection with ourselves. I would not force...