What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

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

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

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

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.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber