The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

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.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.