The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

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.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.