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Friedrich Schleiermacher

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Friedrich Schleiermacher · 1768–1834

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“He lost his childhood faith, kept the feeling underneath it, and built two whole disciplines out of the wreckage — modern theology and the modern art of understanding another mind.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 163

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“Religion is not a set of doctrines to believe or rules to obey but a feeling — the sense of being absolutely dependent on something infinite; and understanding anyone, God or human, is a difficult art that must be learned.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 163

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