The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

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