The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

God is the absolute truth...