Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

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

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.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

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