Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

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.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

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.