GERMAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
GERMAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
SCIENTIFICALLY INTRODUCING UNIVERSALITY TO ACADEMIC LIFE

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BASIC LAW OF THE ACADEMY
 
   Platon  
 
  The terms “academy” and “academic” relate to the teaching institution / teaching activity and the teaching level of this great philosopher and student of Socrates.  
 
  “The sciences should only be taught,
inasmuch they contribute
to aligning the soul to the higher existence,
to the eternally true ideas ...
Only if they do this, they shall be taught.”

Plato		  
 
  “The sciences should contribute everything,
which forces the soul to turn towards where
the most blissful of all being is found,
which it absolutely must behold.
But not that which sometimes comes into being
and then decays again.”

Plato		  
 
  “The archetype of harmony
is the highest subject of teaching,
only by which
the just and the other values
become prosperous.”

Plato		  
 
 
Sokrates		  
 
  “Music has a more powerful potential
to educate

than any other
educational medium,

because harmony and
rhythm of naturally structured music
find their way
into the deepest depths
of the soul

and unfold
its natural beauty and dignity.”

Socrates

  
 
  “There is only one single good for man:
science.
And only one single evil:
ignorance.”

Socrates		  
 
   Beethoven  
 
  “I must despise a world
which has no idea
that music is a higher revelation
than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Beethoven		  
 
  “Continue,
do not only practice art,
but also penetrate into its interior,
it deserves it,
as only art
and science
raise man
up to divinity.”

Beethoven		  
 
  “An intelligent man,
who has studied a book
for the sake of knowledge, cognition and truth,
should leave it altogether,
like someone leaves the straw when he wants the grain.”

Brahmabindu-Upanishad		  
 
   Einstein  
 
  “What really counts, is intuition.”

Einstein		  
 
  “The really important things
are learned in a different way
than through words.”

Einstein		  
 
   Plato  
 
  “Because no law and no order
stands higher than knowledge and insight,
and it is not permissible,
that reason shall stand
in subordination and dependence
to anything,
rather it deserves the reign over everything,
if it is really true and free
according to its nature.”

Plato		  
 
  “There is an eye of the soul.
With It alone you can see the truth.”

Plato		  
 
   Kant  
 
  “Not-seeing cuts man off things,
not-hearing cuts man off man.”

Kant		  
 
  “For enlightenment nothing is needed but freedom,
namely the most harmless amongst all
what may be called freedom,
namely this one:
to make public use of one's reason
in all aspects.”

Kant		  
 
   Goethe  
 
  “The actual study
of mankind is man.”

Goethe		  
 
   W. v. Humboldt  
 
  “The development of all seeds, however,
which lie in the individual disposition of a human life,
I consider to be the true purpose of the existence
on earth.”

W. v. Humboldt		  
 
   Plato  
 
  “The archetype of harmony
is the highest subject of teaching,
only by which
the just and the other values
become prosperous.”

Plato		  
 
   Beethoven  
 
  “Music is the only
unembodied access
to a higher world of knowledge.”

Beethoven		  
 
   Einstein  
 
  “On the path to discovery, the intellect has little to do.
There is a leap in consciousness,
call it intuition or whatever you like,
and the solution comes to you,
and you do not know how and why.”

Einstein