To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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.

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

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.