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

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

World history is a court of judgment.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.