All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

God is the absolute truth...

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

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.