The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

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

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.