To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.