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.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

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.