Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

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

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

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.

The real is the rational and the rational is the real.