People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

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.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

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.

God is the absolute truth...

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.