The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.