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

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.