Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

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

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.