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Full Idea
Being is only perceptible to itself in the state of becoming.
Gist of Idea
Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming
Source
Friedrich Schelling (Of Human Freedom [1809], p.403), quoted by Jean-François Courtine - Schelling p.90
Book Ref
'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.90
A Reaction
Is the Enlightenment the era of Being, and the Romantic era that of Becoming? They like process, fluidity, even chaos.