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

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

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

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

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

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

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