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

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

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

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

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.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.