Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

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

Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.